I have travelled widely since graduating in 1992. Australia, Cambodia, India, Namibia, Philipines, United States of America, are just a few of the countries I’ve visited – and no, I don’t...
It is dark and snowing lightly. The temperature is exactly at freezing. I hear the sounds of the sirens of ambulances and the barking of the neighbor’s dogs as someone approaches. They become louder...
The starkness of Winter is like sleep or death and the brilliance of Spring is the reminder of birth and renewal.
It’s easy to become weighted down by the grayness that surrounds you during Winter....
As a child, Saturday mornings were a special time for me. My father was a self employed owner/operator of a small printing company in the downtown area of my community. Shortly after sunrise every Saturday...
Although river and highway intersect here, they seldom bother each other. The highway is the busiest in this area but sitting in the shade under the bridge with the river calmly moving, it feels as though...
A few years ago I made some new friends through a small web community. We chatted for hours about everything and nothing, becoming so close that I thought the reality could never be as good. When I finally...
I took this photo four years ago in Southampton, UK. My best friend and I went away for a couple of months to France and England after a particularly bad year for us both. My friends mother had passed...
Two years ago tonight I stood pressed against the foot of the stage at The Catalyst, breathless with some kind of spiritual awe, close enough to see the lines in his hands and the dust on his shoes. Two...
We go there every year and every year he takes one day out of his very busy schedule and takes us for a ride that is always one better than last year. He owns the hotel we stay in and grooms the trails....
Bruised twice, first by my boyfriend Elmer. It wasn’t the first, but it will be the last one he puts on me. The second bruise doesn’t show, it’s from the justice system here in Delaware.
I...