If I'm buying a book new, I always start at either the library or a brick-and-mortar bookstore where I can sit down with a stack and see which ones are useful. It doesn't take very long to skim a c...

For cooking, I keep: - wine cubes - homemade recaito pucks - a variety of sausage, both homemade and not - bread scraps for making bread pudding or breadcrumbs ...

Real ponzu seems to be impossible to find in Philadelphia--believe me, I've looked. The enormous pan-Asian groceries don't seem to carry much in the way of Japanese products, besides the ubiquitous...

You can use the space to extend the adjacent room. I had a space like this and found that removing the legs from the sofa made it the perfect height to sit on the edge of the "stage"--presto, three...

Just because you know that someone died in this building doesn't mean that no one died in all the OTHER places you've lived. You just know about this one. Death happens, ghosts aren't ...

I rent, so I have a gravity bike rack which doesn't require me to screw anything into the wall. I have two...