Nick Livermore

Water. You can’t live without it. You want to live near it and vacation on it. We keep hearing about how we don’t have enough of it. It’s endless! It’s also quite fascinating. We live on the blue planet. It’s…Read More

I have spoken before of my addiction to TED Talks, haven’t I? I find them much more interesting than most of the equal parts bland and scripted reality TV we are all subjected to. One of the most interesting TED…Read More

Corn is so cheap and delicious at this time of the year, right? At 5 for a dollar, I really cannot get enough of it. I may or may not have incorporated it into three different meals in one day.…Read More

Last week, my lovely friend Maia was telling me in scintillating detail about her current addiction to gazpacho. Of course, I just had to try it for myself. Not try, per se, but pick her brain and others on what…Read More

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to be catching up with some old friend in my old town. One friend picked me up from where I was staying and the first thing I remarked was, “wow. Your car still…Read More

There is a big difference between an artisan good and something of a very finite nature. Take coffee for instance. There are an endless number of coffee farms across the globe. Many tout to be small-batch, the greenest or the…Read More

If we could turn back the hands on time and revise our 2012 trends, we would make just one change! Well, we wouldn’t because that’s cheating, but you get the idea. We identified that Green Buildings and LEED certification are…Read More

This past weekend, I was frantically pushing the mower around the yard trying to get it cut before the rain commenced when I glanced my neighbor doing the same thing. Upon closer inspection, my neighbor was actually pushing a cart…Read More

Anyone who has visited, or come within 50 miles, of New York City will be all too familiar with the towering midtown spire of the Empire State Building. Completed in 1931, the building was the world’s tallest from that date…Read More

Sydney came into the family courtesy of an adoption day at a Richmond, Virginia supermarket. While all the other dogs that day were busy running around greeting their potential adopters, Sydney was perched quietly in the corner basking in the…Read More