Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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BTK: No Show, No Call
In today’s NYT, we’ve got a deeper story about Witchita’s BTK Killer, who was finally caught last week. Couple lessons: 1. It’s the sticklers, the true believers, and the inflexibly “correct” that we have to worry about: “He looked for absolutely everything, and he must have enforced every rule there ever was – just because…
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John Noble Wilford
I have a degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Now that’s not exactly a phrase that I have an occasion to utter very often in my daily life as an internet consultant & failed poet, but it is a part of my identity that informs everything else. One of the great…
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Metra Reversible Seats
Flips Back & Forth Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Yesterday I took the Metra. I was reminded how well-designed their reversible seats are. Sturdy, thick, simple device for flipping the seat over and facing the other direction if you feel like moving forward, with the train, seeing what’s up ahead; or if you feel…
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Judging
It’s not easy being a judge. Judges are held out, held up, and looked to do make the decisions for us. To interpret our own scribbles. To give us what we deserve. It hasn’t been a great week for judges. I pray for my fellow Chicagoans, the family of Michael F. Lefkow and Donna Humphrey,…
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Colleen O’Neil
My niece, Colleen O’Neil, works at Catherine Cook School. She was featured in their newsletter last month. Here’s the interview: Q: What inspires you to work in an environment with children?A: Both my aunt and my great-grandmother were teachers, and they inspired me to nurture the next generation and help them grow into confident, responsible,…