boston globe magazine
September 20, 2009
Your Home Color: Orange crush

Your Home Color: Orange crush

One hue - both playful and refined - sets the mood at this North Shore home.
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coupling: stories about relationships

Absence makes the heart...

Could I persuade my wife to give me leave from the family for a weekend with my buddies?
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Oh, very young

Seeking fun? Let the millennial generation show you how it’s done.
miss conduct's ettiquette column

Rover speaks

How to reply to questions directed at your pet, plus surviving catty co-workers.
pierced column

Touching up history

The T received a needed art lesson.
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Your Home: Color

A study in contrast

He’s colorblind. She’s not. A clever designer helped these newlyweds find a bold palette they both love.
New hue review
Your Home: Color

New hue review

To freshen up your space (and maybe even boost your mood), get acquainted with these three color trends - the hottest of the year.
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First Person
Divine design
Showcasing glorious couture and jewels, the exhibit “Mary McFadden: Goddesses” opens Tuesday at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. We talk with McFadden.
Cooking
Kids in the kitchen
After-school snacks your children can make for themselves.
Kitchen Aide Purees for fruit rolldowns
On the Block
Three for $399,000
Here’s what you get for the money.
Perspective
Surrender the sand?
Not all of our beaches can be saved by fighting nature.
Designing
Return to splendor
A historic home gets a renovation that’s easy on the environment.
Parenting Traps
More than “Mom’’
A virtual world -- with real value.
Fashion snapshot
Racer’s edge
Shoulders get the gold medal in these looks.
Tales from the City
Quiet communion
A celebrity altar boy, and telling your children about the pre-computer age.
Letters to the Magazine editor
Readers sound off about their fashion budgets and the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest, and tell how they coped with the news that a son had enlisted.

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