The author is trained as an architectural historian and never veers far from her chosen path, maintaining a love of architecture and, in particular, houses, and even more specifically, planned comm...view moreThe author is trained as an architectural historian and never veers far from her chosen path, maintaining a love of architecture and, in particular, houses, and even more specifically, planned communities such as Sunnyside Gardens, NY. While living in Chicago she became a docent extraordinaire for the Chicago Architecture Center's Architectural River Cruise. Nurturing a love of her interest in medicine, she enjoyed a career in academic medicine for twenty years of her life in the role of Strategic Planner in a plethora of top notch schools of medicine throughout the US, including Penn and Stanford. She and her husband live today in Berkeley, California, in the ninth of nine houses they have renovated throughout their lives together. Her children, Daniel and Bettina, have brought tremendous joy into their lives.view less