ScrapHAUS for the Greenville Humane Society

A few months ago I read an email request from the Greenville Humane Society asking for architects to design and build a “Bowhouse” to be auctioned for their cause.  I wasn’t sure I could fit it into the work schedule and I knew that I didn’t have the tools anymore, thanks to Katrina, to build […]

Is it REALLY all about appearances?

Posted by on Aug 1, 2011 in Little Things, Miscellany | No Comments

In these troubled times, are we still really worried about appearances?  It seems to me that this has been an issue for some time, but particularly in the housing industry.  Too often people are putting high priced finishes, granite countertops or four part wood trim, on pressed wood subfloors and using vinyl framed windows.  Sorry for using Dr. Phil’s catch […]

Plays well with others.

Posted by on Jan 13, 2011 in Little Things, The Process | No Comments

Let’s let this be the measure of how we select our team.  It is rather elementary, but quite relevant in today’s cut throat economy.  “Do not covet your ideas,” says Paul Arden in It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be. Play well and share.  We must accept others ideas […]

Little Things

Posted by on Aug 10, 2010 in Little Things | One Comment

Whenever I need to remind myself that the little things are truly the most important, I go back to an early dinner at Taco Bell in 1993.  Ahead of my poor college friend and I in line was a little girl with her father.  She was begging, like no one has ever begged before, for […]