Climbing the stairs in our new condo

Itold my husband, Peter, when he first announced the idea, that I thought it was dumb.

I probably didn’t say “dumb,” because I try to be nicer than that. But I let him know that I thought his idea of getting exercise by climbing stairs in the stairwell was, well, kind of dumb.

“Find out if I can access the stairs in the stairwell!” he told me, after we had purchased this condo, sight unseen, during …