The post Fifteen Edwardian Views of Queen’s Square is of particular interest, given that I look out my front window at Queens ...

“Low Road buildings are low-visibility, low-rent, no-style, high-turnover,” Brand wrote. “Most of the world’s work is done in Low Road buildings, and even in rich societies the most inventive ...

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To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, or get in touch ( [email protected] is the quickest way). I have been ...

Speaking of which; the last thing my father told me was to go fuck myself. This happened on the phone a few years ago, during a call with my mother. I heard her turn away from the phone and ask him if ...

One of them said, “Wow. No one’s ever done this before. Thank you.” I worked weekly with Jonathan for about 9 months, two years ago; that work had a lot of impact on me. Radical Aliveness might not be ...

Words of the late Frank Gehry, from an interview with Sydney Pollack, in his film Sketches of Frank Gehry. To learn more ...

When we were in Mexico City last month we wanted to visit the pyramids at Teotihuacan, but we didn’t want to take an ...

The highlight for me was learning to make Arroz Mexicano (Mexican Rice), the basics of which I captured in my sketch book: I ...

Four years ago , I wrote about Get Me Through December, with vocals by Alison Kraus, fiddle by Natalie MacMaster. What I didn’t know at the time, but know now, thanks to MacMaster’s book I Have a Love ...

This is the 2026 levee schedule for New Year’s Day, January 1, 2026 for Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island. This is the 21st year I’ve been collating and confirming this information. If you’re new ...

Two weeks in, though, we relocated to Guadalajara, and it seemed like there might be a possibility of seeing the homegrown ...