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By Bill Primavera When I was in college, I appeared in a play called “The Madwoman of Chaillot” by Jean Giraudoux with the actress Linda Lavin who would later go on to achieve fame as “Alice” on television. The most

By Bill Primavera It thrills me to remember my dad as a man who really loved and enjoyed his family and who really loved and enjoyed his work. I know because, although he wasn’t very talkative, he said many times

By Bill Primavera Maybe I was 14 or 15 when my mother allowed me to select the color that “my” room (as distinguished from the one I had always shared with my older brother until he went off to be

By Bill Primavera Each Home Guru column I write has the benefit of an excellent proofreader, my wife Margaret. She not only is perfect with spelling and grammar, but she also comments and advises on the subject matter I might

By Bill Primavera Today, we in the real estate business hear a lot about buyer’s remorse, which means either that a buyer regrets a housing purchase after the fact or walks away from a deal before it is consummated. But

By Bill Primavera When my wife and I bought our first home in the country (well, the suburbs, actually, but after owning a home in the city, anything north of the Bronx seemed like deep country to us) we didn’t

By Bill Primavera I still get chills when I think of that early morning when, still in bed, my wife told me that she had had a dream where a man was standing at the foot of our bed, looking

By Bill Primavera Disclaimer: The author of this article on cleaning around the house has little expertise on the subject. For that, I turned to Mrs. Home Guru, my wife Margaret, and other reliable sources. Oh, wait, I do have

By Bill Primavera Even though I’ve lived in a maintenance-free condo for some years, I still have residual anxiety come spring when I would realize that the ecstasy of the season comes with the need to keep one’s garden free

By Bill Primavera Do you like the word association game? When you think of the word “spring,” does it rapidly associate with “house cleaning?” I must confess, for me, I had no such association. Spring was a time to clean