DYING TO BE READ
It may seem maudlin to some, but I enjoy reading obituaries, especially those printed in The New York Times, which are considered a form of creative non-fiction. F...
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April 12, 2018DOGSLEDDING IN LAPLAND
Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to introduce you to Lynda Kresge, traveler extraordinaire. She has agreed to be my first Guest Author, so that I can share with you her...
January 28, 2018JANUARY
This month marks the anniversaries of two landmark events, both of which changed the future for men and women in our country and around the world. (1) The Supre...
January 18, 2018LOOKING AHEAD AT 74
Yesterday I celebrated my 74th birthday and woke up this morning wondering if I would feel any different than I did the day before. No change. I try not to dwell on ...
November 9, 2017HOW DO I TELL MY FRIENDS ABOUT MY AMAZING TRIP TO IRAN?
There is nothing like traveling to another country to expand one’s preconceived notions and find that those notions had more to do with ignorance than fact. This ...
October 19, 2017POSTCARDS FROM IRAN
During the nine days of traveling in Iran, we have been impressed by one highlight after another in the form of ancient mosques in every city we’ve visited, the o...
- October 15, 2017
FIRST DISPATCH FROM IRAN
I could feel the excitement build when the pilot announced we were beginning our descent into Tabriz, but I wasn’t nervous or scared. It just felt different. I ...
- October 2, 2017
I MET HUGH HEFNER ONCE
Hugh Hefner has been in the news lately. Not because he created another media empire or married for the fifth or sixth time, but because he died. A...
September 20, 2017RECALCULATING
As many people have remarked, I seem to have an easier time making changes in my life, especially as a septuagenarian, a time when some people scale back and others often...
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SYLVAN GHOSTS: ABANDONED ON THE 160
In 2008 I began photographing these wrecked cars from the 1940s and ’50s after I discovered them junked and abandoned deep in the woods on 160 acres of undeveloped land in Western Massachusetts. In 2017 I returned again to the woods and photographed their continuing state of rust and decay. The surrounding foliage had been tamped down significantly, but the cars showed a slow but continued demise.
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