Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
We've never been the sort of family who wandered into a furniture store and picked out a "themed" room. Frankly, it's not our style, nor did it ever fit our budget. Take, for instance, our living room: there are several chests for storage. One is an antique that came over with my wife's great-grandmother from …
'Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind. Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me. One says she's a friend of mine." -Eagles, 1972 A repetitive earworm, periodically since it was released in 1972, has been Take It Easy. It's not too …
I'd never known that towel craft was a thing until I walked into my cabin on the cruise ship and found this whimsical elephant made of towels. Our cabin attendants made some interesting creatures almost every night. The cruise line wasn't out of pocket for any costly goodies, and it was a great way to …
Dreams may not be forever. It seems to be a cruel thing to say. But as important as having a dream can be, they are sometimes crushed, outgrown, or we are disappointed in their realization. We also grow, and generate new dreams to take the place of the old. Here's the rub! I had a …
In 1981, after several years of gradual therapeutic progress and plain, ordinary "growing up," I quit smoking. It was a gradual process, but one that had a major effect on how I lived. Quitting was a promise I had made to myself, but which was very hard to deliver on. The immeadiate effects? I no …
Want to do lunch with your favorite fictional character? Not me. I used to live with a host of them on the backside of Boston's Beacon Hill. Yeah, the neighborhood is real snooty and transformed these days, but in the 1960's it was described as a "working-class slum". Just a few blocks towards the Massachusetts …
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Contemporary wisdom over the past several decades seems to have been that you go to college to get a job. I went in the 1970's when the prevailing attitude was that you go to college to get a life and then a job. Education served the dual role of educating you as a person and …
Being guilty of your own peccadilloes is bad enough, but I was once confused with another of the same name. Without going into shameful details, this other Louis Carreras was from Arizona and was guilty of being a cad, an abuser of affections, and abandoning sweet young women on whims. Now types like this namesake …
My Macintosh computer came preloaded with a bunch of stuff I never use. Even if you are on a Windows or Linux machine, I'll bet that there is a row of icons that you've rarely opened. On my machine, there are also a bunch of programs that I have recently refused updates for. At this …
I was standing in a small town outside a small city in Nova Scotia last week. The person I was talking with gestured with pride to a group of small homes like attractive boxes scattered on the countryside above a cove., All the homes were recently redone. He mentioned that five years ago you could …
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