Othello Book Review
Othello by William Shakespeare My rating: 4 of 5 stars Jealousy and its evil cousin, envy, are at once as […]
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Pope-Leighey House Tour
Really cool virtual tour of one of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright homes, Pope-Leighey. The carpenter who built it said, […]
California Building Code Section 2308 – Conventional Light-Frame Construction
I was recently requested by a residential designer and property owner to review a portion of conventional California roof framing […]
Tolstoy on Relationships
What Tolstoy does best is to show people the inner lives of people whom society judges more severely than they […]
Silas Marner Review
Silas Marner by George Eliot My rating: 4 of 5 stars Silas Marner (1861) is a story of a young […]
Enough and to Spare
“True disciples . . . would be consistent environmentalists – caring both about maintaining the spiritual health of a marriage and preserving […]
My First Taste of Wright
Some things, even things that seem inconsequential and mundane at the time, have a way of carving out in our […]