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This has been a summer I won’t soon forget, personally or professionally. On the former side, it started wondrously with the birth of my first grandchild, which came shortly before I helped my oldest daughter, her husband and the new baby move houses (an adventure that sent me to the hospital with a severely strained back). It continued with my youngest daughter’s completion of her undergraduate studies, her grand tour of Europe and her start in medical
I’ve lived in Los Angeles for more than 50 years, was once a decent athlete and have always been a sports fan. I’m avid about local traditions and culture and have peeked in on at least parts of broadcasts of Tournament of Roses Parades on New Year’s Day since the late 1950s. On January 1, 2013, however, I did something I never thought I’d do: At the invitation of
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 www.watershapes.com ESSENTIAL Integrated Views A spectacular site is often the foundation for…
Here’s a quick tour of the new WaterShapes.com, starting with the pulldown menus at the top of the home page: q Articles. This section already includes about a year’s worth of the information that’s been published in our twice-monthly newsletters. Right away, all new newsletter features and articles will be uploaded to the site immediately; within a few months, everything we’ve ever published in newsletter form will be ready and available to all readers
AUGUST 22 2012 www.watershapes.com ESSENTIAL Suburban Spaces You really can find opportunities in unexpected places,…
In my lengthy publishing career, I’ve experienced a whole pile of rollouts and launches – more than a dozen new magazines, almost as many books and a few Web sites. Truth be told, none of them were ever as long in the making or as painstaking in the details as the one that occurred a few days ago, when the new WaterShapes.com took flight. We started working on this remastering project
As I indicated earlier this year, we at WaterShapes have dedicated ourselves to making our newsletter and Web site bigger, better and more helpful than ever. We’ve increased the volume and frequency of original newsletter articles and features, gotten involved in raising the level of education in our industry and organized everything we do to make solid information accessible in ways that
In the weeks since we announced the suspension of WaterShapes as a printed magazine, I’ve gotten a fair amount of friendly advice about how I should do things differently in moving forward. With all-new apologies to the reader who complained about our use of
