What To Do

What To Do

by Maida Korte “Yes, terrible things happen.  But sometimes those terrible things – they save you.” (Chuck Palahniuk)             “I am a Russian interior designer.  Rip it out.”  I practice saying this out loud in the privacy of my car when I mentally review some...

Trudy

– Maida Korte “Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” William Shakespeare         She came to the door with a large stemmed goblet in her hand filled with sparkling water.   In a deep gravelly voice...
Closed In – Opening Up

Closed In – Opening Up

by Maida Korte                                    – It has been said that the kitchen is the heart of every home.  Well, if this adage is true then many homes are at major risk for heart failure.  Often a kitchen remodeling project springs from a faucet that no...

Occupying Space

Maida Korte      “My bedroom furniture is moving in on me.”  This was the phone message I received in the middle of the night.  It seems that Mrs. Smith could not sleep due to her bedroom feeling overly oppressive.  Rather than phone...

The Kitchen

“We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.” – Joseph Conrad          When we moved to the country from the city, I had...