At Home, Wrapped in Another 'Self'
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Will the real Valerie Steele please stand up?
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WHAT if you could look at the world through only one window in your home, even though your place had other windows and other views?
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People don't run away to find themselves. They take off to lose the things that distract them from being who they really are.
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Home, the saying goes, is where the heart is. But, for a while, for Laura Sheridan and her family, home was where the bond-trading firm was, too.
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By Monica Soto Ouchi, Seattle Times  It's suddenly getting cozy in the living room.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Torn between family photos and a stack of periodicals.
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This kind of sibling relationship is different. But how? A case study.
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A seasoned merrymaker comes to celebrate the tame evening at home.
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MY father died while planning his last trip home. An Irish emigrant who had gone to the New World, he suffered the usual homesickness, a homesickness that became more compelling with each passing year.
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Life & style: The number of men choosing to stay at home and raise the kids has doubled in the past 14 years. Blake Morrison asks them what it's like and why they do it.
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In our closets, and out minds, the books, clothes and dreams.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A burglar who made himself at home after a break-in overstayed his visit, police said. Larcellus Angelo Scott, 23, had ordered a pizza and was doing a load of laundry Wednesday when Denise Bealessio returned home from work.
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If the only way to gain any real sense of the countryâs thriving contemporary-art industry is to visit China itself, the coming art season does offer some at-home options.
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One of the big lessons of becoming a father is that you no longer see yourself as the sole protagonist of your movie.
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At the heart of the home makeover shows, which are now spreading rampantly on American television, lies emotion.
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The automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.