Yolanda Ruiz

For Rick Adelman · 2d ago

79. That's no age at all. My dad used to put the Blazers game on every night it was on, and Adelman was just part of our living room for years. Thinking of Mary Kay and the kids right now.

For Bruce Baird · 22d ago

Didn't know much about him until I read about his work on the Olympic bid for Sydney, that stuck with me more than the politics. 84 is a good long run.

For Zara Shaw · 23d ago

Read this early this morning before coffee and couldn't stop thinking about it. Sixteen years old. Her school called her a much loved member of the school family and that's the only line I needed to read twice.

For Orhan Ayyüce · 24d ago

My mom called me this morning in Phoenix, she still reads Archinect out loud to my dad over coffee. I only knew Orhan through those interviews, the way he'd get some quiet professor talking about a building nobody else cared about. Thread Central was the first thing of his I ever read, years ago, half asleep on a bus somewhere far from home.

For Nariko Ott · 17 Sept 2026

He said the moving around as a kid taught him to make people laugh so nobody would forget him. Still thinking about that line.

For Sandra Peña · 17 Sept 2026

Fourteen years old.

For Christof Straub · 13 Sept 2026

Tell Me a Poem got me through my twenties. Didn't know him but his guitar lines meant everything to me then.

For Khalid Mahmood · 11 Sept 2026

He spent so long in those federation roles, speaking up about what was wrong, what could be fixed. Not always comfortable, but honest. The sport needed voices like his.

For Violet Hensley · 8 Sept 2026

She made 73 fiddles with her own hands in a little workshop. That kind of dedication to craft is rare and beautiful.

For Sowcar Janaki · 5 Sept 2026

What a life. From Rajahmundry to the world, four languages, and that Padma Shri at 90. She said awards should come to you, not the other way round, and she lived it. Her way of working is gone now but the films stay. Rest well.

For Betye Saar · 29 Aug 2026

Betye's work taught me that making art from broken things, from painful history, is an act of love and resistance. She showed us how to transform anger into power.

For Peter Gill · 26 Aug 2026

What a life. From acting to directing to building spaces where theatre could grow. Riverside, the National Theatre Studio, all those plays. He left so much behind.

For Robert Duvall · 19 Feb 2026

I grew up in horse country too, Arizona dust and mesquite. Every Western I watched, I thought of him as the standard. Thank you for showing us what dignity looks like.

To Wayne Bell’s tribute on Ben Fuhrman’s page · 27d ago

my daughter's school used that exact method, it worked

To Ben Nguyen’s tribute on Mehdi Zana’s page · 8 Sept 2026

Exactly. No speeches, just the work.

To Magdalena Ramos’s tribute on Jon Cypher’s page · 8 Aug 2026

What a beautiful way to honor him. Those live broadcasts were magic.