I've read two things in the last two days, from two different points of view, saying the same thing. Art is about feeling. Francis Bacon,...

From under the tutelage of a past fading perhaps, but never lost From out of a mirror we step On wobbling feet, walk ahead Seeing...

In my second novel, one of the themes I'm working with is seeing the past for what it is. Not truth, as truth exists only as long as the...

In a certain biography of an admired artist, one of the chapters begins with "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he...

House of Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts, October 2004 I found Lidia Wardell through her brother-in-law, Samuel Wardwell, the younger...

Huntsville, Alabama, June 2020 I found this little gal trying to get in to my house this morning. This is not unusual, and is always an...

Abiquiu calls, night desert under flourescent light, to it I speak One of my desires is to capture Georgia O'Keefe's spirit in...

I love this photo! This is Marvin Earl Swindall, as the iconoclast. No date or information provided with the photo, so I had to do a...

Time stops the instant we fail to see the pain and the beauty suchlike A week ago, this clock chimed for the first time, perhaps in my...

It isn't necessarily important to know that this guy is a collared aracari. A toucan by any other name is, after all, still a toucan....

This guy is over a hundred years old, and 1000 pounds. That alone is amazing to me. The only thing I found more impressive about seeing...

Someone once said that eyes are the windows to the soul. Do you think they meant to include animals? Emphatically I say, I do! I have a...

Aside from my travelling, I seem to use my photography as a reward for finishing some bit of, dare I say, good writing. This week I've...

I've been thinking about legacies as the central theme of my next novel. The legacy as a physical representation of a family heritage,...

We can find a spot of color in an otherwise bleak world; we can imagine a better day, near or far, when a spark can light up a picture;...

Well, it's official--my debut novel The Rose and the Whip will be released on 25 March 2020. If I haven't said it before, it's been quite...

In the cold and the snow of December 1662, three women were tied to the back of a horse cart, and whipped for the crime of being Quaker....

I recently started reading The Lives of Lucien Freud by William Feaver (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019). I know his name, as an artist, and I'm...

On Tuesday, May 5, 1663, Lidia Wardell was tried, convicted and whipped at the White Horse Tavern in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony....

A cousin once asked if there were some way to capture our family stories. This blog presents, at least for now, the best way to do that...