What I Learned From Thomas Edison’s Bite Marks
I was probably 10 or 12 years old when Mom, Dad and I arrived at Ft. Myers, Florida, our vacation …
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Thing of the Week – August 26, 2011
My Thing of the Week feature intends to focus on unconventional art, the artists who make it, and those who …
Capturing the Soul of the Subject
My wife and I live in Southern Maryland near Amish communities. Amish are wonderful, hard-working people, but resistant to embrace …
Thing of the Week – August 19, 2011
And now for something completely different: Of Dolls and Murder There was a time long before CSI, when investigators used …
What I Learned About Photography From Author Stephen King
In Stephen King’s book about writing, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,” King says, “If you want to be …
Zero Drafts and Unfinished Business (Part 2) – Tree Against Storm
This is part two of a post from August 10, 2011 where I discussed the topic of zero drafts. To …
Thing of the Week – August 12, 2011
Suellen Parker is an acclaimed Atlanta-based artist and photography professor at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) – Atlanta …
Zero Drafts and Unfinished Business
Fiction writers can be divided into two major groups: outliners and discovery writers. Outliners know the beginning, middle and end …
Keeping the Wolf at the Door
According to, “Wolves, Humans, and the Myth,” by Jill Missal on Alaska.net, the expression, “keeping the wolf from the door,” …
Thing of the Week – August 5, 2011
She is not a thing, but as my first “Thing of the Week” post, I wanted to thank photographer, mixed …
Mapping the Edge 