Love grows best in little houses, so the song says. After seven years in a little house, I think it true. With three children and a one-time partner and his child in and out of my tiny two-bedroom house, my home has seen myriad living arrangements. With only me and one of my kids still at home, […]
Read moreReframing Lawn: From Fallow to Bygone
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The fourth Drought and Beauty series lecture was last Friday, organized by the landscape architecture departments of Cal Poly Pomona, USC, and UCLA. Eleven of us gave quick, pecha kucha format presentations, followed by a brief response from two local writers. I chose to tell the story of one reason I work in landscape architecture: my […]
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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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
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