Hilary Potkewitz

Can Your Relationship Handle a Trip to IKEA?

By HILARY POTKEWITZ In therapy, so many couples mention fighting while shopping at IKEA or while assembling their items that clinical...

Travel With Bird-Watching on the Brain

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ A small bird called the European redstart once prompted South African bird-watcher James Currie...

What's In Your Bag? What It Takes to Go Fly Fishing With the President

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ Dan Vermillion’s odd-shaped carry-on bag—a five-foot tube with one bulbous end—has an...

Tips From the Ultimate Travel Strategist

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ Some people travel the world looking for undiscovered beaches, vacation spots or cultural...

A Clockmaker Marks Time at Home

DREAM SPACE By HILARY POTKEWITZ If Erik Ulfers can’t sleep, he won’t just lie there staring at the clock. He’s more likely to take one...

House Calls Get Complicated When the Patient Is a Horse

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ Ric Redden always has about a half-dozen horseshoes with him. They’re not for good luck. Like...

An Ice Dancer Keeps Her Skates Close and Packs for the Cold

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ No matter where Meryl Davis is heading for her next gig, she knows the job site will be cold and...

A Magician and His Travel Bag

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ Back in his hotel room after every performance, Ryan Oakes methodically goes through all his...

Neighborhood Journal: Chocolate District in the Making in Brooklyn

By HILARY POTKEWITZ When aspiring chocolatier Jacques Torres opened his small kitchen in Brooklyn's Dumbo in 2000, he was lauded as a...

What a Mountain Guide Packs to Climb the World’s Highest Peaks

WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG? By HILARY POTKEWITZ When Edgar Parra travels for business, he usually eats about three Snickers bars a day. He’s got...

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