Have you ever broken something of value? Maybe you broke your favorite coffee mug, a bone in your body, a family heirloom, a garage window, an appliance in your home. Alternatively, maybe what was ...

On a recent day, a non-Japanese citizen was using a brush to dust cracks in a bowl with gold in an indirectly lit space with a warm ambience on the second floor of a building in Tokyo. Matias Canosa, ...

If you've heard of Kintsugi already, you probably associate the term with the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. This lacquering method uses gold and other metals to mend fragmented pieces, ...

If you search online for “kintsugi,” most of what you’ll find in English is self-help advice that uses this Japanese craft as a jumping-off point. The idea of repairing broken pottery in a way that ...

I am very sentimental about the objects in my life. Not just my grandmother’s amethyst cocktail ring or my first childhood drawings, but also the electric pencil sharpener I inherited from my mom and ...

SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

Personal finance is an exercise in mistake management more than the pursuit of perfection. Indeed, the best financial plans are those written in pencil, where numerous erasures are visible. They are ...