Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup In recent years there has been a plethora of acronyms that have emerged to describe various models of...

SOGI: sexual orientation and gender identity. (link) Two summers ago, our son came into our house on a break from yardwork, headphones...

If this made you laugh or squirm, what form of empathy did you experience? Exploring patterns for empathic design is the subject of a...

I have been told that I present as a pretty typical architect. I am male, White, my identity aligns with my physiology, I’m healthy and...

Treat others as we want them to treat us This has been part of our societal DNA for millennia. From a perspective of evolving...

We recently moved our son into his freshman dorm at Howard University. What we did is not much different than what countless others were...

Our Strongest Impressions This is the most difficult to define because they are so wide-ranging and all-encompassing in their contrast to...

What are the schools like? Dakar is host to a wide variety of places of learning, from traditional public schools, small religious...

Was it safe? Both my husband and I had different reactions to being a same-sex couple in a country that is 97% Muslim. In general, we...

“What was it like?” was the “biggest” question I’ve been asked about our family’s recent trip to Senegal, and one that was forefront in...

Our family recently returned from a trip to Dakar, Senegal, bracketed by visits to Rome and Paris. It was exciting, challenging,...