Steve Brown, at The Blogs

Jan 2, 2023, 10:51 PM

I saw a list of the top 10 New Year's resolutions. After "exercising more, losing weight, and stopping being a couch potato", number four was to "save more money and spend less money". Since that is the penultimate line...

Mar 22, 2021, 5:13 AM

The Ups and Downs of a Very Special Super Hero

“The Ups and Downs of a Very Special Super Hero” is a children’s book that gives young readers and their parents who read with them, insights into understanding the differently-abled people they will meet in life and how to...

Feb 26, 2021, 7:35 PM

Esther’s secret

The Intimacy of Disagreement My mother, Esther, had a secret. It involved my father. My brother and sister and I were the only other people that knew the details. We were sworn to secrecy. Enough years have...

Feb 8, 2021, 7:11 AM

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Soaring

Golden eagle, flying, with Tien Shan mountains in the background near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (iStock)

We sat in those awkward chairs, surrounded by putty-colored walls , not wanting to be there, impossible to be anywhere else, longing to see our loved ones

Jan 25, 2021, 12:13 AM

I Tore Down the US Capitol Building

Freedom Plaza, Washington DC. Tom Bernard, Photographer. Photo by permission of VSBA Architects and Planners.

I tore down the US Capitol Building. No, I wasn’t one of the clown-car insurrectionists banging through the Capitol doors earlier this month. I was a young idealist with a crane and a plan. I did commit a crime...

Dec 31, 2020, 5:45 PM

Voices on Slave Street

My family and I visited Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina last week during a winter holiday. Our guide walked us down “Slave Street'', and seated us on open benches like summer campers ‘round the campfire hushed for...

Oct 21, 2020, 5:47 PM

Mile Markers and Milestones in Silver and Glass

Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Matthew Brady. Public Domain.

Two anniversaries passed quietly in the last couple of days. The first was a triumph of science and diplomacy that resolved a century-old conflict yet set the battle lines for another. The second captured the depth and horror of...

Apr 8, 2020, 1:22 AM

Magnolia

The tree at my window hasn’t gotten the word that God is dead and all is absurd that spring shouldn’t come, it all should just end. We all should take sides, fight for scraps, and defend. Never all blossoms, too old to change our...

Apr 1, 2020, 9:57 PM

A Tip for Bad News

The news was bad this week ... Like a message in a bottle, that opening half of my father’s one-liner spilled out of a film canister full of coins I put there in 1966 when I was a 12-year-old paperboy...

Mar 24, 2020, 3:46 AM

Wisdom from a zombie flick

Yes I am praying. Yes I am furious at the Chi-com despots who covered this up and unleashed it on us. Yes, I am sad at putting twenty people out of work yesterday in the hope of "flattening...

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Steve Brown is a registered architect and has headed an architecture, environmental design, and construction firm in the Philadelphia, PA area since 1985, whose recent work includes several Net Zero Energy projects.

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