Snowfall. Silent Action.
It must have been about 30 years ago that I wrote the following haiku-like thought in my journal as I watched the snow come down: "Snowfall. Silent action." Unless the snow is icy and verging on...
Happy 106th Birthday, Gladys
Everyone should have a centenarian in their life. Today, January 4, 2012, Gladys celebrated her 106th birthday. What a delight and honor to spend some of her day with her. Gladys is bright and sharp...
My Pasta Heroine: Elia Neri
How many years has she fed family and friends through this combination of flour, egg and oil? When I came across this video of Elia Neri making pasta dough for homemade tagliatelle, I watched,...
Walkin’ Peace in 2012
Forty-one people showed up under unusually warm, blue skies for the Walk-n-Talk on New Year's Day! Wow! Rainier was out. It was like a springtime day as people gathered on Town Square's grassy...
Lunar Eclipse
The alarm went off at 4:15 a.m. so I could get up on a cold night and watch the moon and its light on the water change with the lunar eclipse. The sky started out pretty crystal clear, but advanced...
#!!@#!! cancer
I've run out of fingers and toes to count on. Damn this cancer stuff! Too many people in and around my life, either have it, have "beat" it… or have been beaten by it. It's frightening. It's...
Celebrating 30 Years
It is with deep gratitude that I look back today on my 30 years in business. I have had, and do have the pleasure of working with wonderful people, and they make all the difference in my days. Great...
Bye Bye Berlusconi
At long last, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is going bye bye. The whole world has been incredulous and outraged for years, watching his shenanigans. After dominating Italian politics for...
11:11 on 11/11/11
A singular minute in our lives. We'll have to wait another hundred years to have such a congruence of numbers in time and date. Next year, we will have 12:12 on 12/12/12, but that is a combination...
Homage to the Cinque Terre
Five colored gems - the Cinque Terre - are strung like pearls along the arching neckline of the Ligurian Sea, Italy's northern "riviera" (See map).With color palettes that include melon,...
Mud and Beauty in the Cinque Terre
It was like a punch in the gut a week ago, (October 25, 2011) when I heard that the Cinque Terre had been devastated by flood waters and mud. I had been in those five towns in 2008. I photographed...
On Haida Gwaii
My return to Haida Gwaii was so complex and deeply personal that any public writing about it will, by choice, only skim the surface of the experience. Last week, in Italian style, I trained up to...