Blogging about blogging… I started this blog two years ago as a way to maintain my interest in and expand my knowledge of urban matters after graduating from college with a degree in urban planning and geography. I wrote my first post about immigration – a topic that I remain very passionate about. I intended
Three people in the past two weeks have mistaken me for a 14 year old. The first person to make this mistake was a young man working at the Guess store who was helping my mom and I return a dress we purchased for my little sister to wear to the 8th grade dance. She
As part of our effort to simplify and minimize our stuff, I scanned all of our photographs taken and developed before we owned digital cameras. I made a backup of the photos and threw away the originals, reducing the clutter in our storage closet by two shoe boxes. I imported the photos into iPhoto and
Has it become trendy to dislike suburbs? There is a scene in the movie Juno that satirizes suburbs by showing images of McMansions in a series, presenting to the audience their conspicuous similarities. Several people in the audience snickered as they realized the joke, even as we sat in a big box theater in our
Lauren Newman lives in Richmond, Virginia. She majored in urban planning, married her high school sweetheart, and dreams about moving to Mexico. More »