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(Issue Story)Challenging Assumptions
Beneath the Surface
Thunderstorm season has arrived in the Ohio River valley, and storms here are fierce and deeply satisfying. We are generally protected from the more dangerous aspects of midwestern storms, with the terrain discouraging tornadoes, but the mountains pick up the reverberations of thunder and roll it around to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It’s Not Just Us
Beneath the Surface
Over the years we have talked a lot about what some people see as a declining interest in antiques. Is it because young people are debt ridden? Is it because they are more transient and not looking for purchases that are large in terms of size and in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Endowed by Their Owner
Beneath the Surface
You would not know we are antiques dealers by the state of our house. Or maybe you would. We seem to be accumulating household additions as fast as we accumulate inventory. Things sneak in around the edges: a “new” stoneware crock on top of a shelf, another glass ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bringing Home the Bronze
Beneath the Surface
One of the strangest things about self-employment, at least in our line of work, is how much it differs in terms of scheduling from other, more traditional jobs. Loads of people still manage to do the predictable nine-to-five routine, with the same normal free weekends, whereas we, much ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Treasuring Trash
Beneath the Surface
Some people love to give advice and then not follow it themselves. That makes them insufferable. We try not to be insufferable. (Our children probably disagree. But they don’t like Dad jokes, so what do they know?) With that in mind and entering the third year of a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Invest in Your Nest
Beneath the Surface
In anticipation of new toys to play with, since both kids have fall birthdays, foreshocks, if you will, before the seismic main event of Christmas, we usually spend a little time in late fall “deaccessioning” household goods. It is amazing how things accumulate, and, especially in the years ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Making Memories
Beneath the Surface
Why are the winter holidays so stressful? Sure, there are all the additional obligations, like school programs and various holiday parties for the organizations in your life, and all the additional expenses, like gifts for coworkers and the mandatory Christmas gift-card exchange with people you don’t know what ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fresh Perspective
Beneath the Surface
Back when COVID-19 was terrible (or is that still now?) we wrote about an imaginary trip we’d get to take someday when much of this was behind us. Recently, much like a movie adaptation of a novel with some of the important bits trimmed out of it, we ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Market
Beneath the Surface
There must be something about humans that makes us like to critique other people’s choices and to see how ours compare. That’s the very essence of some of our earliest prehistoric interactions, such as games—comparing one set of skills against another. And what were acts such as putting ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Endless Summer
Beneath the Surface
Or, the summer vacation that wasn’t really. Back in the spring, we both got vaccinated. There were tears. A parent or two also cried in relief. The kids acted as if it was a holiday, even though at eight and (by the time you’re reading this) 11, they ... (Read More)
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