I'm partial to all of our advertisers, but I can't help but point you in the direction of one in particular: Fabulous Furniture on Route 28 in the Ulster County hamlet of Boiceville, at which I stopped yesterday with Freeman sales rep Brenda Williams.

Steve Heller has some unusually creative furniture and sculpture in and around his emporium. He obviously wants you to buy something, but I don't think he'll mind if you just look and admire the cool things on the grounds.

Equally talented is Steve's wife, the noted entertainment journalist Martha Frankel, whose memoir "Hats & Eyeglasses" has received excellent notices.