San Miguel chapel, the oldest church structure in the US, Santa Fe.

Jack Goldsmith writes another very reasoned and helpful history of the unitary executive theory.

We’ve reached the melodrama stage of winter in New England. Summer has never existed! I have never been warm and never will be again!

“Our intellectual errors are often, although not always, rooted in our moral errors. For both types of mistake the best protections… sarahendren.com/2025/02/1…

My short film Simple Machine will run in three festivals this year, and counting! We have worked and reworked it; gratifying to anticipate it going out further into the world.

Anyone else learn to draw flapping foreshortened flags from Mark Kistler on PBS in the 80s? This was a lovely memory.

This particular Chang and French exchange is especially good.

Saw and heard the stunning soprano Joélle Harvey yesterday, two Handel cantatas at the Jordan Hall jewel box. We’re spoiled in Boston.

What a beautifully lucid walk-through of Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Therese Cory.

I don’t do a lot of academic publishing, but it was gratifying to think through Howard Gardner’s “fruitful asynchrony” idea in creativity studies alongside my own “disposition, language, house” framework for the maker-thinker: intellectdiscover.com/content/j…

Fantastic conversation with Nicolay Boyadjiev of Re-Arc Institute on a “paraphilanthropic” approach to humanitarian architecture, public-private partnerships, innovative contracts, and more: scratchingthesurface.fm/263-nicol…

An evergreen topic: design public spaces for children! sarahendren.com/2025/02/0…

My friend Jack Goldsmith and his colleague Bob Bauer are doing us all a favor, explaining and historicizing presidential power with the Executive Functions newsletter.

One goal for this spring is to write and pitch a longform book review. Curious if folks here have methods or frameworks that set up that particular writing process well.

I really enjoyed talking with architect and podcaster Erin Peavey about design for interdependence, family life, disability and more: open.spotify.com/episode/7…

Intrigued by Architectural Uprising.

Leah Libresco Sargeant is that rare journalist looking hard at the post-Dobbs landscape.

Another week of frigid walking commutes, but I’m cheered by spotting paper flyers advertising IRL mixers for millennial singles — “apps are out, meetups are in.” Go go go, y’all — undigital habit shifters unite.

“I had no interest in subverting things — monogamy, moral norms, courtship, the nuclear family, faith, a classical education — that I’d never had or known in the first place… sarahendren.com/2025/01/2… (h/t @ayjay)

A couple of my projects will be in this exhibition at the V&A this summer. I wish I could see it!

My grad student from Istanbul brought me some real-deal Turkish Delight.

Our daughter now has her driver’s license. New era of “excuses to go to the grocery store” commencing.

It has been forever since I listened to Erykah Badu’s Badhuizm, and my goodness. A stunning and enduring record.

On choosing.

Off to purchase blue books for my students’ quiz like it’s 1993

I have some work in a show opening next week at MoMA called Pirouette: Turning Points in Design.

It’s the first day of classes and I will be talking with students about @ayjay’s thoughts on being a self-deceived rational utility maximizer.

On Magnum Opus Syndrome and coaching PhD students: sarahendren.com/2025/01/0…

I wrote about people as object lessons.