and written for our pleasure too For some months I had been trying to enliven an inherited 150-year-old manuscript describing a...

We live in an age of arrogance, and cognitive bias Covid.  Take, for example, 20/20 hindsight. A lot has been written about the hindsight...

Ever since a life-changing year spent in Taiwan in 1976-7, I have been drawn to Guanyin, the Chinese goddess of compassion. I wonder how...

mostly written over two decades ago, mostly still ringing true I am a sentimentalist. I am not afraid to be influenced by emotional...

Our backstories began generations before us, and however much of that tale we think we know, there is more fascination lying in wait. We...

I wonder if the rules of the visual game might be changing. Just as the experience of the eyes has always crowded out that of the other...

This long-march of a blog draws on material I had hoped to see into print a decade ago—China Makeover, the perspective of a design...

I was lucky enough to grow up in a designed landscape in Weston, Massachusetts, that showcased the talents of Olmsted, Ernest W. Bowditch...