Architecture Meets Crime

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For the last four days, I have been captivated by a book titled The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, penned by Erik Larson. I first came across the story of H.H. Holmes on a night spent watching a documentary in a hotel room. (A “guilty” … Read more

The Meaning of Kindness

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It’s the holiday season. Take a cue from the Salvage Man and show some kindness, which may take unexpected forms. O What an easie thing is to descry The gentle bloud, how euer it be wrapt In sad misfortunes foule deformity, And wretched sorrowes, which haue often hapt? For howsoeuer it may grow mis-shapt, Like … Read more

Christmas is Coming

The visual of Christmas – the holiday tree, the lights, the frosted houses – usually flood our senses and become the things we wasily associate with the holiday season. However, as I run through the many images of Christmas that flash through my mind like a black-and-white filmreel, I come to the realization that the … Read more

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