This web-project was started some six years ago by Megan Verdugo, a relentless and selfless design and typography enthusiast, an UMassD alumna, graduating successfully from the Design Department of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, in which I held a position as design educator since 1973 until retirement. Megan Verdugo owns the total archive […]
Reflections + Follies
Appendixes
At the beginning, they say, the word was birthed. That may be true. But at the end, it says right here, in the mechanics of life, at the end of the book, there fall the appendixes . . . Any encyclopedia will mark “appendix” a collection of supplementary material, usually placed at the end, […]
Papier is geduldig!
Paper is patient! Even though Paper may appear without blemish or crease or without smudge or fingerprint, its only capacity is to live in servitude to the pen and the lucid or confused mind that guides the hand. It endures without anger or upset, while carrying all kinds of messages that vacillate between fact and […]
The Harvard Business Review
Unfortunately, I have always made snap decisions, never weighing financial security in favor over personal integrity. Driving home from a day of pure misery at WGBH, I made the decision to quit the next morning, and did. Without discussing or weighing circumstance or ramification, I had my wife’s approval. My family had come through WW […]
Being Abandoned – Being at Home
Christmas 1944 is the moment which signals the beginning of my growing sense of abandonment. It is the last holiday that my parents, sister, and I would spend together. Right thereafter, my father, as general practitioner in medicine, was called to the “Volkssturm,” a German national militia established during the last months of World War […]