Somewhere beyond the sea, Somewhere waiting for me, My lover stands on golden sands And watches the ships that go sailing.
Splash! The week-end is here. I hope I gets lots of things done but I also hope I find lots of time to just sit around, go for a swim and just enjoy the warm season. Happy Memorial week-end!
Regent Street, London I spy an incredible mound of hair. A pink afro. I love seeing people who own every part of themselves. And, it’s good to have a sense of humor about Style.
When I ask about Dachau, the young rotund woman with rosy cheeks at the front desk of my modest hotel takes a map from the counter and draws me a guide. She has done this before. Is it far? No, no. J...
Make it a good one.
Viktor Frankl liked to say, “You must over-estimate man. If we take man as he really is, we make him worse. If we over-estimate him, we promote him to what he really can be.” For someone ...
Berlin, with its 3.438 million people is an empty city. We arrived on a rainy Wednesday. The city was still and it felt as though we were in slow motion. This was understa...
This photo is from my first trip to Berlin. I was so shocked by the amount of grafitti that there was because I had always thought – probably through s...
Hello Friends, I’ve been hard at work on a some new projects! I’ve been conversing in a little html and javascript. I finished putting together an interactive London travelogue on the pla...
Maybe the thing that attracts people to creative endeavor is precisely the freedom to make mistakes. You can learn lot of things without understanding them. The only way to understand i...
I find myself coming back to certain country songs. I love the way some country songs are written. The verses sound less like clever wordplay and more like a recited play. By the time t...
Note to Self: Let no one decide what you are or can be. What you think of yourself is far more important, what you think is a far better determinant of your future than what anyone else thinks. So, b...
I’m on an Emily Dickinson kick right now, just in time for Spring. All her poems are like this one – about dawn, the sun, the trees, the bees…It makes me want to photograph every li...
I took these pictures in Bavaria, Germany where I was attending a journalism conference. Just outside the halls of the seminar, in the village of Hexenagger, were these lovely fields. The yellow cast...
Click to Listen One is robust and leads, the other leans in with a more strident sound. The viola declares while the violin pleads. It’s in the second go-around that we hear the subtleties of t...
Fear of Flying (1973) New York, Vienna, Munich, Paris, Florence. 1970s, Second Wave of Women’s Lib. Brassieres optional. Twenty-nine year-old New York poetess Isadora White Wing can’t see...
New York is so meta. Everything in New York is something that someone is taking a picture of while someone else is filming the photographer for the making-of movie of the shoot while people passersby...
__________♥__________ Happy Valentine’s Day! {I called this photograph Remember When You Said Yes? because it felt like a memory to me when I took it. And a good one memory, too. Look at those ...
Taller Puntera They produce little treasures such no...
If you are an art lover, you’ll enjoy finding El Greco paintings here as this was his hometown. The stained glass stained glass windows are fit for a Gothic cathedral but they actually belong t...
Friends, Valentine’s Day is one of those celebrations that seem to polarize people. Either you start planning for it a week ahead (I consider that a lot of planning, OK?) or you try hard to ign...
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway...
Carolyn Forche’s poem, The Lightkeeper and goose bumps (Read More)
When I was a child, my mother worked as a seamstress. It was a fast-track to self-employment in Haiti. When she began studying the sewing course, she made patterns at home out of recycled paper and I...
I thought that time was on our side Ive put in far too many years To let this pass us by You see life is a crazy thing Therell be good time and therell be bad times And everything in between And I do...
Nothing brightens the day like a pair of orange tights. I felt self-conscious about buying these and then I realized that what Im wearing is probably the least consequential part of me. I could dithe...
A few days ago, I played Mr. Rogers and got to know some folks from my neighborhood. I got to know Helen. Helen lives in Columbia Heights. Shes a native Washingtonian. I meet so few people who are na...
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