Allegra wanted to be an architect from the time she could walk, talk . . . and draw. Of course, when she was a toddler she called it building houses, but she was always with pencil and paper in hand drawing home designs for her favorite cartoon characters. As she got older she realized that architecture might not be the way to go because she wasn’t very good at math. Although Allegra took art lessons in high school (thanks, Mr. Flanagan!), and one year of art at a local college she eventually majored in something different, married, had children, and worked in the...more
