Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 – Earlier this summer I constructed two wooden ramps to provide passage over two side-by-side fallen giants of the woods, each . . . two feet in diameter. The completed project looked simple enough, but in design and construction the operation required a fair among of engineering. As with most completed cabin …
MAY 16, 2023 – For several months leading up to Christmas last year, I worked single-mindedly on a gnome home project for our granddaughter, Illiana. What had begun as a simple, rustic concept morphed into a kaleidoscope of whimsical possibilities—and engineering challenges. When Illiana’s delight at the unveiling of the magnum opus – gnomus domus …
JULY 16, 2022 – Every architect I’ve met is a class act, professionally and personally. What’s to explain this? Does the profession draw a certain personality type? Do the rigors of their education weed out the riffraff? Is it because architects are artists? I must pose these questions to “my friends in architecture.” I could …
JUNE 30, 2021 – My wife and I possess the good fortune of having architects among our friends, even relatives. Members of other professions number among our friends and relatives too, but architects are in a special group. They’re “practical artists.” Back in the good ol’ days, architects actually had to draw—with hand-held instruments—and build …