Nancy W. Brown

Debbie Schuld is an empowered woman. She understands global issues from both sides now, and she knows herself better than she did two years ago. She is a passionate, giving, caring woman … a mother, a teacher, a wife, a mentor … and, at age 50, she became a Peace Corps volunteer.

Her blue eyes dance and a smile tugs at her lips as Lee Compton talks about her husband and her plans for the upcoming holidays. An easy chuckle escapes as she explains their tradition of having friends over for “outrageous soup and salad and absolutely ludicrous dessert,” at the beginning of the season.
    “We did a lot of things as a couple,” she notes, “and I see no reason not to continue.”

Retropolitan owner Amy Heimermann makes interior space fresh, fun and personal.

AmyHeimermann has a gift; a talent for making a house a home. While her eye for design is unquestionably superb, her gift, really, is getting inside the heads of her clients and helping them define their own styles.