Check out my new online portfolio



Finally sold a photograph! This has inspired me to put together a more extensive online portfolio, as well as to work on new images. Here are a few.


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Sun - September 9, 2007

Reading poetry on YouTube


Adding a new feature to my YouTube site. I am reading some of my own poetry.

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Sun - August 26, 2007

The Activist and the Artist: A Lifelong Conflict (Re-Post)


I posted this originally March 26, 2004. I am still facing the same conflict. But the activism has long since taken a very different turn. I am no longer involved in IndyMedia. My activism has mostly centered around public safety issues, though I do keep a hand in media issues (still working on Democracy Now! in Rochester -- now trying to keep it afloat on the air at WROC).

And now, I am ready to write "the big book." Or actually the big two. And my photography -- well, I haven't written about my photo show, have I. Oh my, I do have so much to catch up with here!

I am pulled in so many different directions, but the most important conflict I have right now is between being an activist and being an "artist" (that is, someone who produces creative work).

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Sat - August 25, 2007

Coming back to the core


Haven't written here in a long time. Lots of distractions. Find myself now needing to come back to the core, which is my creative work.

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Thu - July 12, 2007

Megan's Garden: a study in meditation and healing at Image City Photography Gallery 7/18-8/12




Selections and adaptations from my Megan's Garden series will be displayed with “Panoramic Rochester,” by Sheridan Vincent, and other collections at Rochester's Image City Photography Gallery, starting next week, July 18-August 12. Reception will be held July 20, 5-8:30 p.m.

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Fri - April 6, 2007

Playing with my new toy: podcasting a video Easter card for my grandkids


Celebrating (a very pagan) Easter with my brand new Intel iMac by creating a video podcast Easter card for my grandkids (and everyone else).

Broadband version here .

Faster download but lower quality YouTube version here.

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Mon - November 6, 2006

Holiday images and more on my CafePress.com site




I seem to be more focused on images than words these days. That, and busy-ness with other matters, as well as not being in the best of health, has kept me from posting here.

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Sat - September 23, 2006

New images on Cafepress.com gift shop




All these new images are now available on greeting cards, calendar prints, and other custom items at my Cafepress.com online gift shop.

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Sat - August 19, 2006

Reflections: Image from Goodman and University, Rochester, NY


Today I am highlighting one of my photographs, taken in 2005, of a reflective image I chanced upon while walking to Starry Nites one afternoon. Sometimes things look upside down when they really aren't.


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Fri - August 18, 2006

Mud Road


My weblog gets a lot more hits than my creative site, so I am going to try directing more traffic that way by posting excerpts from my essays and fiction, just to see if I can hook new readers that way. First up: Mud Road, a personal essay I wrote about trying to raise my teenage daughter on my own while in graduate school. (Now, mind you, this kid turned out wonderfully, in spite of me and my mistakes!)

The essay includes photographs.

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Thu - May 11, 2006

Greeting Cards for Lovers and Friends




Check out my Cafepress.com website for greeting cards and post cards created from my photography and art work.

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Wed - January 18, 2006

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales...


I've been cleaning out old stuff -- old papers, old clothes, and old files. Came across some treasures in the process, including this quote from Yeats and another from Annie Dillard.

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Sun - January 15, 2006

New Creative Horizons Open




Wonderful new possibilities open for me, thanks to my friend Megan !

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Sat - September 24, 2005

In Honor of Port Arthur


Port Arthur and Beaumont, Texas, have received the brunt of the force of Hurricane Rita. With the news I couldn't help but think about this story I wrote, based on a trip across the South I took back in 1967 with my best friend from high school. I realize now that Port Arthur and the Louisiana swamps blended in my memory. It rained then, too.

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Sun - June 13, 2004

My idea of heaven...


Visiting a friend who lives in St. Paul...I am very jealous and find myself wishing mightily that the winters in this town could be just a wee bit more bearable.

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Mon - May 10, 2004

Coping With Criticism


I originally wrote this for my students in my Writing for the Mass Media course, and then decided to post it here as well, with some revisions and additions. This is about a hard lesson I learned in graduate school at the University of Iowa many years ago -- how sometimes your biggest critic can be your best friend.

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Tue - March 23, 2004

Help Keep this Weblog Alive ... Donate!


I have added a PayPal feature to enable people who want to keep this blog alive to donate toward my expenses and enable me to have more time to write. So if you like what you see here, please show your appreciation by donating whatever amount you feel is appropriate. Look for link underneath the "About Me" section to the right. Contribute $25 or more and receive an 8x10 high quality digital print of your choice of one of my photographs or art prints.

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Fri - March 5, 2004

Rhythms are the Best for Working -- part 2


Blogging for the last two weeks has been a wonderful exercise for me. Though I still am not working according to a regular schedule, I am definitely writing every day. And that has begun to pay off.

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Sun - February 29, 2004

Creativity -- Fieldwork workshop to begin next week


Creativity and the Fieldwork process. New Fieldwork workshop to begin Sunday, Feb. 29, 20004. Are you an artist living in the greater Rochester, NY, area? Check this out!

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Wed - February 25, 2004

Rhythms are the Best for Working


Rhythms are the best for working... but rhythms are the hardest thing in the world for me to manage! And then there's the matter of breaking long-standing, unproductive rhythms.

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