Imagine making $100,000 a year with a seasonal job that requires four months of hard work and eight months of minimal time. This is what Philip Bregstone does, and it's all possible because new homes are getting larger and larger with designs that include vast window surfaces. In the Washington

There are windows of opportunity and windows to the soul, and then there are windows that Philip Bregstone washes. About this time every spring, as he has done since 1993, Bregstone packs his family into a white Subaru hatchback, leaves his chicken and goat farm in Colorado and travels across the

When we first met Philip Bregstone ("Dr. Glass Does Windows"), he was perched atop a 20-foot ladder, wielding a cloth and a squeegee and making a comfortable living as a part-time window washer. Then opportunity knocked, and even though his first inclination was to say "no, thank you,&#3

Washing windows can be a real pain, particularly in mansions that grace the nation's capital. Yet one resourceful entrepreneur has made a lucrative career out of it. The only problem is the continental commute. Philip Bregstone, 39, spends nine hours a day for 14 weeks polishing windows in t