by Maida Korte | Mar 23, 2024 | Remodeling
– And Other Motivations By Maida Korte “You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” –...
by Maida Korte | Feb 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Maida Korte “You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It’s all too much for the poor organism, isn’t it?”- Jeff Foster...
by Maida Korte | Jan 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Maida Korte “Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organized.”? Stieg Larsson Ever since reading Garrison Keillor’s essay on spring...
by Maida Korte | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ~ Edith Wharton There is a picture window at our kitchen table and this window allows me to sip coffee and gaze at our back yard with not a single muntin blocking my view. A tall, long-needled pine sits at...
by Maida Korte | Nov 15, 2023 | Memoir
“To create something exceptional, your mind-set must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.” Giorgio Armani I love the harmony that details create in a space. See that carved corbel at the hallway...