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The unique product got off to a slow start. But by 2015, the market was exploding. In the second half of 2014, lenders issued $148.7 million worth of new loans in California, according to state data; during the same period a year later, volume jumped nearly fourfold, to $553.9 million, as more counties added the […]

I can’t separate the book from the book, the content from its form. To say, “The Collected Works of Carl Sandberg” is an abstraction. But my “Carl Sandberg” was the first book I ever bought for myself, a fat, gray, hardbound volume with a red square. It had lost its cover who knows how many […]

The boxes poke fun at the growing number of fliers who have tried to haul dogs, rabbits, horses, pigs and other creatures onto planes, under a federal law that allows passengers to fly with animals that provide comfort for flying anxiety and other emotional issues. Airlines in the last year have begun restricting what types […]

I’ve written as long as I can remember — written to understand, to work things out, to find meaning and order in things that are meaningless and unorderly. On the best days it felt as though I was not doing the writing, that it came from someplace else. Writing was a personal relationship and I […]

“I’m always interested in how the things we make live in context,” explains Hendifar, who also serves as the firm’s creative director. “This particular space presented a context that felt like it required this statement” he said of the final look, which was inspired by the “palette and architectural approach” of Italian surrealist painter Giorgio […]