Collecting My Thoughts

 Tonight's movie at the Estates almost didn't happen. "Mr. Blandings builds his dream house" is a post WWII tale of "...

 When I was a child and the family or school group or church group would travel to Chicago, I was always amazed by the vast neighborhoods of...

It seems American architects are boycotting doing work in Russia. That's probably a good idea, but does Russia really need them? I...

I've been reading my husband's professional (architecture) literature for so many years, I think I could write the articles--at leas...

If I could write as well as R.R. Reno*, I would have said this decades ago—I read a lot of architecture magazines. Nearly 3/4 of Americans...

This afternoon I'm going through all our trip memorabilia--most of it in two large storage boxes in the furnace room. Alaska, Arizona (t...

“The Office of Administration and Planning welcomes your feedback on revisions to the Sustainable Design and Construction policy (currently ...

We returned to Columbus on Sunday for a memorial gathering in the ballroom at the Southern Hotel for Joe Schappa, who died in Florida in Mar...

I am so sick of the anti-Trump drivel in every media source--this in "Architect," which awards issue (336 pp) is the size of the o...

With a three hour time difference, we arrived in Phoenix 20 minutes early and before lunch.  Rick and Kate's son, daughter-in-law and gr...

Sunday morning I watched on YouTube Sunday Mass broadcast from Sioux Falls, SD, and what a beautiful cathedral--the Cathedral of Saint...

Yesterday I didn't blog, but I was a client at a clinic that is two  years old (the practice is older, and so is the building, but the p...

Yesterday we carried three sacksful to the church library and Tuesday an unbelievable amount of books and magazines to the public library Fr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zBG1xML8U0 I wouldn’t necessarily call the choices, “the best,” but they are certainly influential. The f...

June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works ...

It’s been interesting to see Rome the last few days on TV via Vatican TV as the final 48 hours of Pope Benedict XVI have been broadcast.  Bu...

Boarding the plane after a long delay in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. Better to have problems on the ground than in the air! The classes he's ...

              It’s the Medical Center’s new Chiller Plant, an environmental air conditioner that will cool the new James Cancer Hospital a...

Here’s an index of the architectural designs of Thomas Jefferson. Today I noticed an article about two Utah architects running for Congress...

In the area Hatert, at the edge of the city of Nijmegen, Netherlands, the housing corporations Portaal and Talis organize a great renewal o...