My Last Column, For Now

My Last Column, For Now

Do good things that people value, and value the good people who enable you to do those things. That has been my guiding principle as editor of an evolving publishing venture during fast-changing times. Truth-telling, of course, is an encompassing part of doing what...
Handing Over the Hammer

Handing Over the Hammer

After watching too many episodes of “This Old House” and the early HGTV shows (before home renovation became so silly, competitive and dramatic), we once bought a house project.  The owners had built the house 50 years earlier and made it into a comfortable home. It...