Mary Kunz Goldman

It has been just a couple of days since I declared war on my neglected back yard .  And in that short window of time, I got a surprise. Some...

  Last summer I dreamed of transforming my neglected back yard. Reader, I did nothing. Now summer is returning, the ivy is climbing again, a...

Voila, a doorway to the 1960s! It is magical, the things you find when you turn your house upside down and shake it!  In recent weeks, I’ve ...

The 2025 Decorators' Show House. Photo by the Author. Yesterday I got to go and see the Junior League Decorators' Show House. I’ve j...

I have been writing on Substack recently. It's so easy as far as including videos and images and such, and I would like to keep doing th...

  Metropolitan Opera Valkyries. Could this be me? Advent is flying and one of the reasons for that is that I am singing in the St. Louis Cho...

Not to shock anyone but today I went walking in Forest Lawn Cemetery. You have to walk in cemeteries in the fall, I am sorry. In October. I ...

  On Assumption Thursday, a couple of days ago, I found myself at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, pictured above. It is one of my favorite pl...

  I heard recently that the Buffalo pianist George Jones had died. The world has lost a little something. Years ago when I worked for the Ni...

  While I was cleaning up the house, I happened on an old diary. It was from when I was 10 years old. I stopped cleaning to look at it. My ...

  Today lounge pianist Jackie Jocko’s piano came home to its old location. It is sitting in the corner of the Hyatt in downtown Buffalo wh...

  It wasn't pretty, but it had to be done! As my old friend Daryle woulds say. Isn't it funny how you pick up phrases from people an...

There is this cast-iron skillet I cannot bring myself to use.  It just sits on my counter! And I keep on using my old annoying frying pan, w...