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Consider the Context
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Humans like permanence and certainty. We carve initials in trees and desks and doorframes. We seal documents in plastic. We enshrine important things in stone. But no matter how we feel about it, things change, and even if they do not, how we feel about them does. We ... (Read More)

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Coopertition
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface We feel like foreign correspondents these days, with many of the observations you read here written on the go, what with scratching odd bits on the back of reading schedules and permission sheets, regularly scrounging around under ketchup packets and outdated registration cards for crusty pens and stubby ... (Read More)

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Balancing Act
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Is there anything worse than not being able to find something that you absolutely know is there somewhere? With a big house, an auction gallery, and two kids, Hollie really would not want to calculate how many hours she spends looking for things: keys, math books, library books, ... (Read More)

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Hand-Me-Downs
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface At the end of every year, we spend time sorting through the house, moving along things that can be used by someone else to make room for the things that are coming in the form of holiday gifts. There is a whole process of evaluating and assessing that ... (Read More)

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Story Time
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Our children have reached the age where they find us “cringe.” (That is what they call “embarrassing” these days. A key way to be cringe is to use their slang against them. You get bonus points if you do it on purpose, and you level up if you ... (Read More)

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The Art of Living
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface We had a beautiful fall here, despite persistent drought, and as the seasons start to change, the magazines in our mailbox start to fill up with articles with suggestions for day trips: “Fifteen Fantastic Day Trips from Columbus” or “See Ohio’s Best with Our One-Tank Trips!” We are ... (Read More)

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Beware the Undead
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Did you know that not a small number of people consider antiques to be “creepy?” They do! “Dead people’s stuff.” Old houses with creaky floors, beds people probably died in, blanket chests that held trousseaus for ghostly brides, samplers and quilts made by the “dead” hands of women who died ... (Read More)

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Please Read Carefully
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Life gets incrementally easier with kids. It is like the reverse of that apocryphal boiling frog story: things getting ever-so-slowly better—instead of worse—until one day you suddenly notice that they are better. (Yeah, yeah, don’t write to tell us how it’s going to start getting worse again now ... (Read More)

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Christmas in July
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface We have taken you with us countless places over the past too-many-to-count-without-feeling-old years. To museums and museum storage, to antiques shows and antiques malls, into the seats at an auction and through the online bidding platforms that run them, and on road trips that resemble a National Lampoon ... (Read More)

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Going to the Dogs
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Back in 2017, in “What We Did on Our Summer Vacation,” we talked about a trip to Dish Camp in Historic Eastfield Village when Andrew was invited to speak on the broad topic of Ohio pottery. Back then, the kids were just six and four, so most of ... (Read More)

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