New Design for the Gift House Blog

My blog has a new design and title, but its mission continues: to document the strange and marvelous array of things that appear at our town dump’s swap shop, where locals browse and gab, share and swap, unload and load up. And where Harry Belafonte’s voice is always singing, Day O. My memoir about our family’s [...]
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Rodarte Picks Jay DeFeo and “The Rose”

The sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy — otherwise known as Rodarte, the wildly successful fashion designers from California — took their turn at the winter issue of A MAGAZINE CURATED BY, assembling a glorious spread of many surprises and dangerously kitsch fashion photos, all California-inspired.  Golden State natives will want to savor this issue over and over. And, best of all — for me – the issue includes an [...]
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