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Our Shrinking Engineering Legacy
This essay was published in WBUR Cognoscenti on July 2, 2014. I took a walk with a friend through Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., last weekend to enjoy summer’s long days and pleasant weather. Some of the cemetery’s most … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Tagged Back Bay, Big Dig, Boston, Cambridge, Charles River, civil engineering, MIT, Mount Auburn Cemetery, South End, Washington Tower, Zakim Bridge
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Free Stuff – It’s Moving Season
I am sitting in my study on a warm summer Saturday afternoon. My third floor tenant is moving out. I have offered to help, but he’s a big guy, as is his boyfriend, so they’ve got it covered. They load … Continue reading
Route 6A Brewster
Bicycling to Cape Cod is becoming an annual tradition. This week I rode to Eastham to visit Jan and Mike Golan, pedaled to Falmouth to see my son, and then returned to Cambridge. Cape Cod Baseball League game each night, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Brewster, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Baseball League, Cape Cod Rail Trail, cycling, Eastham, Route 6A
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Tata Hall
Harvard Business School occupies a majestic bend on the Boston side of the Charles River. McKim Mead and White designed the original Georgian campus in the 1920’s, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmstead. The twelve buildings organized around courtyards … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Tagged Ben Thompson, Boston, CBT, Charles River, Harvard, Harvard Business School, HBS, Machada Silvetti, McKim Mead & White, SBRA, Tata Hall, Wiliam Rawn
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Long June Days
Memories pile steep this time of year. The sun hangs in the sky for more than fifteen hours. More years rest within the vaults of my mind than will span future horizons. Long June days remind me of Minnie Diver, an … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, United States
Tagged Floydada, June, Levelland, San Antonio, South Plains, Texas, VISTA
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Wishing me Gone
Cambridge is a great bicycle city. We have more bicycle lanes per square mile than neighboring communities. We have protected cycling lanes, Hubway bike stations, designated parking areas, public repair stations, even a bicycle jug handle in Harvard Square. I … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged Aberdeen Ave, Bicycling, bike lanes, Cambridge, cycling, Huron Ave
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Haiti Update
Many readers of The Awkward Pose became followers during my period of working in Haiti. It has been months since I wrote about Haiti, so here is some news: 1. Mission of Hope school is up and running. … Continue reading
Posted in Haiti
Tagged Architecture by Moonlight, Be Like Brit, BLB, Fond des Blancs, Grand Goave, Haiti, Mission of Hope, MoHI, Saint Boniface
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One Breath to One Movement
Sequencing is the term we use for the series of yoga poses that we put together to create a coherent class. Like most things in this world, sequencing is something I never thought about until I had to do it, … Continue reading
It’s My Party – Come Any Way You LIke
Longstanding social customs allow hosts to recommend appropriate dress for an occasion: casual for garden parties; business attire for cocktail events; black tie for society weddings. Announcing parameters around dress enable the host to establish a tone. If you arrive … Continue reading
My Chakras / My Asanas
Specific yoga poses draw from, and contribute to, how the seven chakras exist within each of us. In theory, chakras strength and asana strength correlate. I decided to investigate that in terms of my own practice. Consider the seven Chakras … Continue reading
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