Author: Eric Drivdahl

There is a reason some homes still feel beautiful twenty or thirty years after they were built. Usually, it has very little to do with whether the kitchen is current or the tile is having another moment. Those things change. They should. A home has to live through decades of changing taste. What lasts is …

In the spring of 1983, I somehow set the record at my elementary school in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test for most pull-ups. Strangely, I don’t think that record was ever broken before the school closed and the buildings were demolished decades later. And look—there’s no proof anymore anyway, right? Trust me. That unbroken record—and …