January 5, 2016

Ten years ago I was celebrating ten years of the site. 2006 also brought homeownership, a slight case of cancer, and more travel. Highlights and favorite posts below.

January:

• We like Winston-Salem
• New urbanism is neither
• I do not nurture nature

February:

• That word
• Triangle weekend (the “something that was bothering me” was the early-stage cancer I’d just been diagnosed with)

March:

• The ‘burbs

April:

• One size does not fit all
• My car
• Columbus (several posts follow)
• Jane Jacobs: 1916-2006
• We’re home

May:

• The old homestead
• Celebration
• The new house

June:

• MySpace. Blecch.

July:

• The big urban essay
• The big gay essay
• An honorable disease

August:

• The yard
• The yard, reviewed

September:

• Formidable power
• Bug spray
• Preservation, my ass
• Hell in the desert

October:

• Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto (several posts follow)
• Five years of gooeyness

November:

• Aunt Lucille
• Curtains for Eastland

December:

• Christmas at home
• Where I live