Business travel breeds ideas. My business trips involve some off days, waiting around at my destination, combined with really long...

Last weekend, I pushed it. I bought two tomatoes at the local farmer’s market on 67th street. New York state tomatoes are okay (they...

One of many meals I’ve eaten while dining alone. Dusseldorf. RL Fifield, 2012. I can travel a fair amount for my job. Anyone who travels...

Seattle. RL Fifield, 2012. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. Brilliant sun and a cloudless sky marked my days in Seattle. Like San...

Call me a dreamer. A romantic. Impractical. Head in the clouds. One of those city folk (that’s hilarious, you should see where I grew...

I think I heard about this study on the Registrar’s Committee of the American Alliance of Museum’s listserve, a very long time ago. If...

I moved into New York City proper in 2005, and while my journalling habits have given way to blogging, research writing, and fiction, I...

No, we aren’t looking to move! But I was flipping through a book in which I kept notes about my apartment hunt in 2005. I had 54...

We have some pigeons who decided to make a nest on our window sill. I found them too late – when I knocked on the window to get the hen...

Mr. V’s family lives on the opposite side of the state, on the Atlantic coast.  Beaches, suburbia, and hot weather don’t do much for me. ...

Inari sushi – sweetened deep fried tofu skin stuffed with rice dressed with rice vinegar, salt, and sugar. Photo by miwa_in_oz There is...

RL Fifield, 2012. Last weekend, The Brigade of the American Revolution hosted an Authenticity Event at Don Carpentier’s Eastfield...

I predicted in this post from April that people would be hot to trot for Downton Abbey influenced costumes this Halloween. True to form,...

I am a museum collection manager with over twenty years working with museum collections. I started cataloging costume objects when I was...

“Maid service is getting harder and harder to find at any price and only too often, even if you pay top wages, you will have to put up...

RL Fifield 2011. Mountains. The Canadian version of Seattle. West coast cool.  I’d heard so much about it, and while the mountains are...

RL Fifield 2009. A fantastic collection in an incredible building tell the epic story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The 1884...

Yes, beer in museums. Now on at The New York Historical Society, Beer Here: Brewing New York History reminds the visitor of the...

Ancestry.com, as a genealogical tool, is a start for many doing genealogy. I see it as a way to sketch and share only. There are a lot of...

Teresa Carpenter does not arrange the selected snippets of text in a chronological order. Instead, she starts with January 1, and then...