This past weekend Jennifer and I enjoyed our bi-monthly supper club with Raigan, Eric, Joy and Stev, with Margaret hosting. Margaret prepared a most-excellent Chef Paul Prudhomme beef bourguignon. Her support call went out for crusty bread, some sort of green salad thingy, and desert. Raigan prepared an awesome green salad with apples, walnuts, and a raspberry(?) vinaigrette. And just because she is a suck-up keener, she also made a jammy appetizer that was enjoyed with crackers. Joy made a chocolate chocolaty chocolate cake …

A couple of days ago I was reading an article in the New Yorker where the author used the word “recursion.” I wasn’t quite sure what it meant (seems I remember something about two mirrors facing each other?) so I did what I always do: I Googled it. At the top of the search page Google asked, “Did you mean: recursion” as it always does when it thinks you have misspelled the word or phrase for which you are looking. Since I am …

Since 2005, in addition to the traditional charity homes and community projects that the Rural Studio has designed and built, we have been ardently working to bridge the barriers between the income-earning poor and their accessibility to existing affordable federal housing programs. The goal of the $20k House project is relatively straightforward, yet has profound implications: provide a replicable housing model that is creative, affordable, durable, energy efficient, diverse in housing type, and that can be purchased by a prospective rural homeowner for $20,000, …

Like most days, today I was just buried in work. WAY too busy to take advantage of actually being in a college town. But, thankfully, I took a deep breath, put that all out of my mind, and went to the Jule Collins Museum of Art to watch the Screening of a fantastic new documentary film by Peter Esmonde eponymously called Trimpin: The Sound of Invention. The movie is about the work and creative process of the inventor/magician/mad scientist/composer/MacArthur Genius Fellow/ intermedia artist/ …