There is something special about Halloween. Of course, anytime that you knock on strangers’ houses and instead of getting glares and puzzled looks you get candy and smiles, that’s pretty…
Robert Capa, the famous photojournalist and rogueish risk-taker, has been quoted as saying, “If your picture isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” I fear for my equipment. Is that…
A Florida beach after a storm. Calm after the chaos. Driftwood and seafoam and the odd unmentionables here and there. As you get older, your eyes zero in on all…
Sometimes you are walking around, lugging ten pounds of law textbooks, papers and other kinds of horrible elements of torture. Perhaps you wonder why you ever thought it was a…
I was going to start this post with a negative word, but as it turns out, that is simply not possible. Because, you see, sometimes you meet people who are…
There comes a time in every dallying blogger’s life when she must simply write. Time to turn on the spigot and let the muse loose, talking about… whatever. But the…
You know there is something morally and fundamentally wrong when you’re jealous of an insect. But I am, and there probably is. Butterflies, man. What is UP with butterflies, right?…
Mothers come in all shapes and sizes. And they also come in all levels of judgment. Some come from faraway lands –like perhaps Mississippi– and they find your child wandering…
One can get tired of being an apologist for one’s work, especially if one is pursuing some sort of bullshit fine arts masters degree that one’s ex-husband once pointed out…
March may feel old hat to most when it swings around, third in queue; but it’s always been a month of beginnings for me. For one, March was the month…
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