The Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture moved over to the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) this year. My department is also in AHSS and I was thrilled when they moved into the college. I have come to be a big fan of the architecture program through what I have learned from [...]
Tag: parenting
I am not the last of my species…
According to Cheyenne I am the ONLY parent (a.k.a. dinosaur) in the entire universe of her friends and acquaintances that insists on speaking with another teenager's parent when she wants to spend the night at their house. I get the impression whenever I insist that my expectations of chatting with another child's parents be met [...]
Hugging her mom at the high school – not going to happen.
Lately Cheyenne and I have been arriving at her school in the morning at the same time as one of her friends and her father. We both pull up to the curb to let off our respective offspring. Cheyenne gets out grabs her stuff, on a rare day may mutter a hurried "bye", and slams [...]
Where is your mama Miley?
I must confess, I don't really keep up with all the entertainment news. Often, it is not until entertainment news hits mainstream distribution that I have any inkling of what stars are doing to themselves and others. As such, the whole Miley twerking thing was something I heard about only after it blew up to [...]
I hear you Rachel Thomas…
Rachel Thomas wrote a letter to the editor of The Forum. Well, she actually wrote an open letter to the impatient drivers that she would not allow to pass her on the right while she makes a left hand turn on 40th Avenue. She explained that the reason that she does not hug the center [...]
Yoshi’s daddy gear…
One of my students, Yoshi, just became a dad for the first time a week ago. He visited me in my office today and it was clear that joy was exuding from every pore in his body. I don't ever recall seeing him that happy and content. Yoshi's son Emmett is an adorable cherub, as [...]
The gifts we give our children…
I have been thinking a lot lately about the gifts we give our children. Not gifts like game consoles, bikes, and the occasional ugly sweater, but those gifts that come as a function or byproduct of parenting and role modeling. Of course, sometimes they aren't always gifts...sometimes they are handicaps. But the point is, we give [...]
THE NEW FORTY 