About Sue & Tom

Sue & Tom: living in St. Louis, Missouri

We have been wanting to live in a place that would support rather than confine our many hobbies and interests. Finally, in Fall 2009, we found just the place. The process of getting here has been long and complicated, and we hope you might find it interesting. We have certainly learned a lot since we started down this path.

We have been a couple for many years and have known each other even longer. We are both Architects who were best friends that fell in love. We no longer work together but we are both Principals in our respective St. Louis architecture firms. Neither of us are St. Louis natives – Sue hails from Flemington, New Jersey, and Tom is from upstate New York, Virginia, Oklahoma, THEN to Missouri.

Sue and Tom

Our creative interests include (but are not limited to): watercolor, pottery, drawing, woodworking, gardening, welding, knitting (yes, both of us, though Sue is an expert and Tom a novice) and any combination of them.

Sue is a Julia Child groupie, in that she loves experimenting with the creation and sharing of a wonderful meal. Together Sue & Tom design an annual multi-course meal, aka The Big Dinner, for four to six special guests, consisting of a theme and a special menu with selected music. Tom creates a collaborative graphic menu and special keepsake for all of the guests. Sue creates the meal.

We use our expertise as architects combined with our projects at the B.A.B. as teaching tools contributing to two great St. Louis organizations that help young kids develop problem-solving design skills and constructions skills: Building Futures and the Alberti Program. We present topics ranging from “What makes a neighborhood” to “How to design fun places for pets.” We connect real world problems to critical thinking skills.

Our first wonderful Border Collie is named Lucy. In her younger days, she would run straight towards a tree and claw her way up the trunk to about 12′ high – truly a hilarious and amazing feat.

Lucy’s favorite climbing tree

If you’d like to see a video of Lucy in her tree-climbing days, click here.

We promised Lucy that she could have a sister dog once we get settled into the new place, so now  Lily is part of the BAB family.

Lucy and Lily both love to look out over the neighborhood from their perch at the top of the stairs

Sadly, in December 2017, we said good-bye to Lucy. Typical for us, we made a tribute video to Lucy: Good-Bye Lucy. We are hoping to get another border collie sister for Lily as soon as possible.

Want to start from the beginning? Then start at our very first post here. Or if you don’t want to read a jabillion words we’ve written, checkout the summary on Timeline page.

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