A second look at the 1962 kitchen of our Princeton, New Jersey house, featuring the chicken-and-nest window shades my mother made for it, a Caloric gas range and hood, pseudo-rustic knotty pine cabinets, a Sunbeam mixer, and my brother, sitting on the Formica counter, licking cake batter off the mixer beaters. My mother was the photographer and she seems to be documenting her home decor as much as photographing my brother. The reason I think that is another shot from minutes earlier does not have the shade pulled down.