October 2008 My roommate had been preparing for a community review of her urban planning proposal. The class had been assigned an impoverished neighborhood of Pittsburgh as their site for…
October 2008 There was a professor who had a Dodge, and that Dodge was well known around the Architecture school. There was a student of the Dodge professor who liked…
September 2008 For years now, I have lamented my musical memory. I have a hard enough time keeping band names in my head but associating them to randomly playing songs? …
September 2008 Gravity had been pulling me into friendships with boys. I say “boys” in keeping with my older sister's claim: males are not “men” until age thirty-six. It follows…
September 2008 With social media tools such as Facebook, the concept of the yearbook will probably, if not already, become one of those relic references of the generations who will…
September 2008 When Mitch and Gloria invited me to their Crock Pot Luck, I mentally brainstormed some potluck dishes to bring, but I concluded that such a clever party theme…
August 2008 Quelcy, Quelcy, quite, quite merry, How does your garden grow? With gourds and greens and buttery smells, And judgmental nieces all in a row! I left Paris early…
August 2008 Shannon Kulp (left) and I (right) were born on the same day, just one month apart, and we were immediate playmates once my family moved to the neighborhood. …