Former Herald staffer Bonnie Meibers is granddaughter of "Hillbilly Elegy" matriarch Bonnie Vance, Grand Forks Herald

Lawsuit seeks to halt construction of SOM’s supertall Project Commodore next to Grand Central, The Architect’s Newspaper

• How to Align Your Firm with Client Needs, Architect Magazine

• The Pay Is High and Jobs Are Plentiful, but Few Want to Go Into Sales, WSJ

• Legendary American furniture company Herman Miller is now MillerKnoll, Fast Company

• Co-Working Spaces Are Back. And There Are Many, Many Options, NY Times

• A New Generation of Designers Grapples With Social Media, AIGA Eye on Design

• Disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi, inter, trans
  Writing firm profile copy and trying to understand what word best fits the approach. I like inter- the best but suppose trans- is the goal unfortunately however the use of trans- in a word might turn off certain clients due to its use in describing transgendered individuals.

Lessons from the Champlain Towers Collapse, Architect magazine

Having a baby and working from home during the pandemic meant I was spending more time with my kids and less time reading articles in my downtime at work. I recently embarked on a new position in Ohio and am reading a lot again. About marketing. About architecture. About Columbus. So I’m starting to log again…

• When Scaffolding Hands Them Lemons, Developers Make Lemon Trees, NY Times
  Trying to develop my professional voice on LinkedIn where there is more readership than this log so I’ve posted it there.

• Piet Oudolf’s Vitra garden opens in Weil am Rhein, *Wallpaper
  Oudolf’s work is soooooo gooooooood

• A Lesson in Decaying Victorian Architecture From Scooby-Doo, Bloomberg CityLab

• Squarespace version 7.1, Squarespace

• Squarespace version 7.1 vs. version 7.0, Squarespace

I want to update my website with the Novo template but can’t… guess I’m in 7.0 version. This doesn’t bother me too much except I’m going to loose all my “What I read today” entries that have been taking me YEARS. whoa.

• As Summer Takes Hold, So Do the Jumping Worms, NY Times

• Why Kids Collect & Save Things Is Actually Pretty Sweet, According To Science, Romper

• Omnichannel vs Multichannel: What is the Difference and Why Does It Matter?, Shopify

• A Brief History of Homeschooling, responsible homeschooling

• Op-ed: Why Those Community Fridges Won’t Solve Hunger, Civil Eats

• Introducing the Montessori Sandpaper Letters at Home, the kavanaugh report

• The Girl Scout Uniform, Updated for Gen Z,NY Times

• Should Children Go Back to School? It Depends in Part on Your Politics, NY Times

• The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of Brooklyn, The Cut

• What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?, NY Times

• Scavengers Unearth Buried History — and Maybe Radiation — at Dead Horse Bay, Curbed

• What’s Really Happening at Homeless Shelters on the Upper West Side, Curbed

TIPS FOR THRIFTING VINTAGE ART, I Spy DIY

Everlane’s Promise of ‘Radical Transparency’ Unravels, NY Times

Sultry Nights and Magnolia Trees: New York City Is Now Subtropical, NY Times

American Catastrophe Through German Eyes, NY Times

Who Gets to Be a ‘Naked Athena’?, NY Times

The Magic of Black Girls’ Play, NY Times

CORRESPONDENCE: Universal Masking in the Covid-19 Era, New England joinal of medicine

Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era, new England journal of medicine

Some Students Should Go to School, Most Should Stay Home, medium