My second novel, Pushing Water, will be hitting the market any day now! It’s been a long time coming. There for a while I didn’t think it would ever get finished. But one thing about writing is that if you keep…
It was Memorial Day weekend. According to the forecast the weather would be unpredictable. We didn’t care. We were headed upstate to spend the long holiday weekend with friends in an old farm house sitting in the middle of a densely…
It was Wednesday, the day before Christmas Eve. We were on our way to Brooklyn to babysit the grandkids. This has been a trying time for us. Health issues have become a serious consideration. Hanging out with the grandkids would…
Our first full day in Lisbon started out with a brilliant sunny morning. This Portuguese city is known as the city of seven hills and we were staying on the seventh hill. We were going to explore the Alfama area…
My mood changes with the seasons. When Spring begins I feel an uplifting in my spirit and a spark ignites a slew of creative energy. It eventually evens out and I settle down to my usual way. The coming of winter…
The NYC parks were filled with entertainers back in August when the weather was miserably hot and sticky. In Washington Square Park this guy was playing old blues tunes and I would venture a guess that he was probably doing this same…
In October 2007 we visited Vietnam. At the time, I had started research on a novel based in that country and desperately wanted to see the real thing. I knew that I’d only get a tourist’s view in the short time…
Yesterday was the Climate March in NYC. There were 200 other marches scheduled to occur around the world. The latest estimate of the NYC march was 350,000 people. I was a marcher and a photographer. There were plenty of people…
I’ve been taking photographs a lot longer than I’ve been blogging, but for me they have become a marriage that works together perfectly. The camera allows me to capture the world the way that I see it, and my commentary…
There’s always a lot going on in NYC. Construction, noise, traffic, crowds, tons of places to eat, and lots of music, both in clubs and on the street, and in the subways. A few weeks ago I posted a blog…