Posts from the ‘Not As Fat’ Category

HOME PAGE spends an hour talking about the Tiny House Movement, with Marianne Cusato and those who are living it. (click here to read more)

Fat & Drunk

A friend, whose height has nothing to do with his weight – and not in an anorexic way – and who loved Marlboro’s would diffuse the tension when visiting a new doctor for the first time by looking the physician in the eye and immediately asserting, with conviction: “I’m fat, and I smoke.”

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Lent: Degrees of Focus

We focus upon what affects us. Right now, 2 or 3 degrees of Fahrenheit temperature are grabbing our brains in New England: above 32F or below it. Below 32F and its misery extended, above freezing we feel the potential for redemption. (click here to read more)

Most people now assume that when they go to build anything, regulations will limit what they can build. The earliest codes were designed to address safety and health concerns in dense city environments, but once the suburbs exploded and whole towns were created in a few years, aesthetic concerns came into play when neighborhoods’ quality of life suffered from those who built too big, too close or too tall.. (click here to read more)

We fix more things than we make. Having helped make things for about 40 years as an architect, the vast majority of projects fix rather than form. Given there are 70 million existing homes and we build maybe 1% of those each year, the odds favor repair over invention. This is true for the repairmen and formers ourselves. (click here to read more)