#Coping September 17

by Coach4aday · September 17, 2026

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September 2026 several of us are going to take on the 30-Day Architectural Coach4aday Challenge each day, we will define an architectural term and provide examples of where it is located. This challenge will let observation, travel, history, and photography all intersect. For Day 17 it is on COPING.

Several weeks ago, someone asked me if writer’s block was a real thing—and, if it was, how I managed to come up with something to write about every day.

For this month’s architectural challenge, I’ve found that the answer is pretty simple: I pay attention.

I’ve been looking at buildings differently as I walk around town, noticing architectural details I might have overlooked before. I’ve even found myself watching TV shows and paying attention to the buildings in the background. Sometimes an idea is intentional. Other times, it simply finds me.

That happened recently during a church Finance Committee meeting. The Property Committee gave its report, and somewhere in the discussion about roof repairs, Doug Mills used the word coping.

I immediately thought, There’s a blog post in that.

And just like that, I had today’s topic—and one less opportunity for writer’s block to win.

30-Day Architectural Challenge Guidelines

If you have ever watched Seinfeld, you know that George Constanza always wanted to pretend to be an architect

Well, this month’s challenge let’s all of us that are not architects learn a little more about their language. To do that we have a simple challenge.

Every day we’ll learn one architectural term. Your challenge is to find an example—preferably one you’ve actually seen—and share a photograph, location and brief explanation.