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Revere’s Ride
I wanted a gift to give my daughter’s Peace Corps host family. I suggested food, maybe chocolate. Abby nixed that idea. She explained via email that chocolate was unknown in her Cambodian village. How about something from Boston, she suggested, … Continue reading
Posted in Cambodia, Personal
Tagged Beantown, Boston, Cambodia, gift wrapping, Peace Corps, Revere Bowl, Shreve Crump & Low, World Atlas
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Glazed Tile Madeleine
Marcel Proust took one of the most famous bites in the world, gnashing into a delectable madeleine, and thus triggered Remembrances of Things Past. Last night I experienced a similar deja vu, though, being an architect rather than a foodie, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, United States
Tagged Harvard, Marcel Proust, Memorial Chapel, Nicolas Kristof, Remembrances of Things Past, tile, tile floor
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Mindcrowd
Once you get rolling with Internet tests, there seems to be no end of them. After joining Brain Health Registry, which takes about an hour, I was invited to join Mindcrowd, which takes only ten minutes. Mindcrowd is in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alzheimers, Brain Health Registry, cognition, cognitive tests, mindcrowd
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Uber Bargains
This essay was published in WBUR Cognoscenti as Driving a Hard Bargain: Calculating the Toll of Uber’s Reduced Fares on 9/23/2014. A cab ride from my house in Cambridge, Mass., to Logan Airport, a distance of 10 miles, costs $60.00, … Continue reading
I am an Interior Designer!
Twenty years ago, a so-called friend came into my house and announced, “It is hard to believe an architect lives here. It is impossible to believe a gay architect lives here.” His comments stung, but only a little. I knew … Continue reading
Long Island Wonder
Long Island is well known for its questionably proportioned architecture, derived from a thirst for consumerism and New York moxie. But on my first trip to Suffolk County I discovered the beauties of the North Shore in the … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Tagged bamboo forest, Frank Melville, Frank Melville Memorial Park, Long Island, post office, Seatucket
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Brain Health Registry
Please consider joining the Brain Health Registry. If you are interested in participating in Alzheimer’s research or just like to take online tests (as I do), it is a fun activity that helps create a data base to support ongoing … Continue reading
Auxiliary Verbs
A husky Cambodian pulls his moto across traffic along Battambang Cambodia’s riverside promenade. “Excuse me, do you speak English?” It’s a ridiculous question to ask a tall American and his blond daughter. The man continues before we bother to answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Cambodia
Tagged Auxiliary verbs, Bunnarath Som, Cambodia, english grammar, Slarkham English School
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The Music in Our Midst
Kiyoe Wellington has big hands, calloused fingers, and strong forearms. It takes power to draw music from a double bass. She also has a hoop nose ring and spiky dreadlocks; unruly as the loose horsehair she yanks out of … Continue reading
Games of August V: Geography
When researching my master’s thesis, Architecture that Affords Play, back in 1980, I learned that children and adults play for different reasons. Actually, they play for diametrically opposed reasons. Children play in order to gain mastery. Adults play to reinforce … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Architecture that Affords Play, Internet games, play, US geography
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