ICE HOCKEY

ICE HOCKEY

Ice Hockey       I am a hockey dad. This means that for at least half of every year I am watching one daughter play high school hockey, or I am watching another daughter play college hockey. Or, I join my son and some friends on the ice for a Sunday...
MUSIC

MUSIC

music Photos of Matt Shortridge, Mykia Jovan, the Kenny Terry Band with Paul Wolf, Arlo the Man, VO5, Tom Gullion, the Tarnished Halos, Dodie Whitaker, Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour, V-Town Horn Section, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, the Mississippi Pearls, the Medicine...
HUMOR

HUMOR

HUMOR Some photographs are just funny. Or at least I think they are. Here is a photo of a rare banana snake that I took last year in the Louisiana bayou. People who have never seen one often assume it’s yellow, but it gets its name from actually eating bananas....
THIS LOVELY WORLD

THIS LOVELY WORLD

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see.  And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look! Fra. Giovanni “There’s just no way to tell people they are...
TAPHOPHILIA

TAPHOPHILIA

TAPHOPHILIA Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “funeral rites, burial, funeral, wake; tomb, grave”) + English -philia (from the Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love, fondness”).     For me a cemetery is a quiet sanctuary, a sacred space, an art gallery, an...