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KINGSTON DESIGN SHOWHOUSE 2020

Still thinking about how wonderful and inspiring the Third Annual Kingston Design Showhouse was last month.  I feel lucky and honored to have been a part of it.   It made me so happy to see M+A NYC in a couple of the rooms in this grand old house, and to see our pieces mixed in so beautifully with the work of other designers that I greatly admire.  Am grateful to Krishna Fitzpatrick of Krishna Fitzpatrick Interiors and Maryline Damour and Melvin Jones of Damour Drake for including me in their projects.

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PLAN YOUR VOTE

I'm ready for change. How about YOU? Everyone needs a voting plan to make sure that they are vote ready. This is mine: I have already filled out a request for an absentee ballot online to use in case I get Covid-19 during election time.  When it arrives, I plan on putting it aside and using it only if I get sick.  I also plan on voting early.  My polling location will be open for early voting beginning as early as October 24th and every day after, up until November 1st.  I'm grateful for these 9 days because if lines are really long one day I can always try again the next. What is YOUR plan? If you need help figuring out...

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M + A: Embracing Resilience

Resilience has been my mantra for a long time.  Recently, more than ever, it's something that I have been spending a lot of mental energy on -- if not on an hourly basis, then at least a daily one.  Reminding myself that I have lived through many challenging experiences throughout my life and managed to weather through them without allowing them to knock me down for too long.  I've got to say that the pandemic is something that I never thought that I would witness in my lifetime; Its scope is far bigger than most imagined and it appears that it will be with us for some time in the foreseeable future.  If I can offer you any words of encouragement, they would be...

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