(Editor’s note: This column was originally published Feb. 8, 2016.) Dear Helaine and Joe: My grandmother bought this set of furniture secondhand in the 1930s. It is apparently from France and includes a dining table, matching chairs, buffet and china cabinet. Any information about the history and value of this […]
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I Sent an Attractive Lookalike to My High School Reunion
Nobody really liked high school. Even the plastics and 17ft hair-gelled jocks it’s purpose-built for don’t make it out of your average teen comedy without a few tears. The impression it leaves is so significant, it stays with us for the rest of our lives. No matter how much weight […]
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A South Salinas woman builds a design business, one attractive photo at a time. | Face to Face
Toni Mogensen recalls sitting on her couch, a colicky newborn and a kindergarten-age son the main focus of her life, and telling her husband that she should just go ahead and do it. She should just post. As she remembers, it was “about the millionth time” she had made the […]