Matter + Assemble — Thank you RSS

I will be donating 5% of the proceeds from the Field + Supply Fall Mrkt and sales from mplusanyc.com October 6 - 8 to my local PBS station, WMHT.  This will be the second time raising money for them.  My husband and I watch the Newshour nearly every weekday.  I value their fair and balanced approach to covering the news, and appreciate their journalistic integrity.  We also watch and love Henry Louis Gates' show, Finding Your Roots, as well as a number of cooking shows, with Pati Jinich's show, The Mexican Table, being a favorite. I've been a fan of PBS my whole life, and am honored to be able to give back a little something to them in this way....

My mom, Mary Ann Ahearn, is a dynamo.  I feel so lucky that she is still so sharp, healthy, and lives a relatively short drive away from me.  For Mother's Day I asked her some of the same questions that have been posed to me from Field + Supply, Aspire Design and Home, and others, and I added some of my own.  I learned a few things that I didn't know previously.  So glad that I asked her these questions!    Here is the Q + A:   Best advice you’d give your teenage self?  I would say to myself you need a better answer when your parents are sitting up, waiting for you to return at 2:30 in the...