
One of the fun things about going home is being reminded that my mother and I share many of the same obsessions - clothes, shoes, picture frames, books and magazines, except hers are to the power of 10. I subscribe to about five magazines. She must have 50. A side effect of this is that I pick up magazines at her house I don't normally read, like Traditional Home, which nowadays seems to have a surprisingly hip mix of traditional and modern.

