Going through old boxes I just found the plans to the house my parents built. My dad called it the Nautilus house, I never knew…
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According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the United States is in a new phase of…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Today I planned to share my experience with the 1970 board game, SMOG. But that’s not going to happen. For two…
Jackie Cornejo, announcing the backer rewards at the launch party for our Big Water Kickstarter campaign. Click on the photo to see how we did.
The story of water is a story of struggle. In the following videos, three exceptional women explain why and what it will take to win....
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Growing up, I fantasized on a daily basis about moving out. I wanted to be my own person, never have to share a room, and…
Over the past few months, I have been learning to build a house alongside a new friend, Torsten Ottesjö, architect, lumberjack and pedagogue in carpentry…
In his 1942 short story “Runaround” visionary sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human…
Today’s epic scale, inter-twined problems of climate change and inequality demand that we mobilize unprecedented reservoirs of human creativity and collaboration in the spirit of…
The sideman. The old retainer. The assistant. The staffer. The aide-de-camp. Finally the task I’d been putting off for decades has been undertaken. For the…
Growing up in a protective working class family meant rarely venturing far from my parents. Eating out at restaurants occurred about once a year, I…
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. In Chicago today, there is a lot of discussion…
A couple of months ago, some friends of mine organized a building session in their warehouse in London. The idea was to gather people interested…
I help teach a university class on the historical and cultural geographies of London, leading an hourly discussion a week based around someone else’s lectures….
This past year has been an important exercise in patience for me; a year of learning acceptance and letting time do its thing. A year…
The first time I heard the phrase “Time is of the essence,” I just thought it meant that time is important. When I started performing…
I’ve been doing many kinds of waiting this past two months. The first has been a universal kind of waiting: waiting to see if someone…
The American Dream. Setting the foundation for generational wealth in the family. “Making it.” The symbol of true success. Yeah, I’m talking about homeownership. That’s…
While I’m not waiting for the zombie apocalypse, I wonder are they in the Residences condos above their stretch of Hollywood Boulevard? Does a zombie…