Schools That Heal Now Published
I’m beyond excited to announce that Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind is in production, to be released June 3rd by Island Press. Pre-Orders open now.
Tag: green design
The Benefits of Funding Nurturing, Nature-Full Schools … Instead of Police
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Who Wants to Do a Green-Off?
AMTRAK DAY THREE November 24, 2014 “In Fort Worth, you have to see the Kimball Museum,” Jinny said at lunch. “It’s been a couple years, but what I remember most is the brisket and the Kimball.” Jinny’s husband Jim had grown up on the same corner, 110th and Amsterdam Avenue, where my mom lived when […]
A Garden for Drought
I am not one of those Midwest transports to Los Angeles that basks in the endless sun of summer (and fall and winter) and complains when the thermometer falls below 60. Though I remember the dire sadness of the 109th gray day in a row before spring, I need one every now and then. I […]
A Search for A Place
Twenty-two years ago, I had just married, was graduating college, and on a search for a place to live. I imagined myself settling into family life and raising children in one place, wherever that place might be. Instead, I moved through six communities as I raised three children, went back to school, divorced and began […]
Setting Roots
In honor of the five year anniversary of buying my house … Excerpt from Making Home: from the Sticks to LaLa-Land Once the wake of my divorce began smoothing out around me, I felt the need to anchor myself. I wanted to settle down. I wanted a home of my own. It had been five years […]
Rain and Teenagers in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Deluge Part One You’ve probably heard, or been in, the rain this weekend. After months of no rain, we’ve had a deluge in Los Angeles. In a record low rainfall year – the last I heard was 3″ – we got that much in a 48-hour period. For Southern California, that’s a big […]
The Nature of a School Landscape
Think back to your childhood school … what is the first image that pops into your head? I have two distinct memories of elementary school. One is of me swinging next to Katie Coffee on the big metal swing set the day after Jimmy Carter was elected President. The other is of a big maple […]