14 February, 2024
Home Run Towards Happiness – One Shot Story
Last summer, I attended my first Chicago White Sox game with someone I was once close to at the time. I was always eager to attend their games, especially since I grew up playin...
4 January, 2024
Tracking Down My Very First Home (One-Shot Story)
It seems a silly question. But how many people really know where they first lived after birth? I thought I knew, but was wrong. My House of First Remembering My first memories a...
1 December, 2023
410 East 65th Street
Whatever the reason, my telephone fell off the wall regularly, and I used tape and gum to effect repairs. When the handset gave up, I used my stereo headphones for the receiver....
20 September, 2023
Everyday Abstracts: A Frank Benson “Splatter-work” (One-Shot Story)
In 2018, our friends Peter Engeldrum and Carol Keller invited Kate and me to spend a few days with them on Maine’s North Haven Island. It proved to be a more productive v...
15 September, 2023
A One Shot Story For Battle Of Britain Day
Cutting a channel through the chalk of the North Downs from its source near Sevenoaks to where it joins the Thames near Dartford is the River Darent. Retaining the river’s...
30 August, 2023
A Pheasant Surprise (a One Shot Story)
This past spring I was in my study one day, desperately trying to bring a little cosmos to the prevailing chaos on my CD shelves. My study is situated to the rear of our h...
19 July, 2023
The Drum Room (a One-Shot Story)
During a brief period of unemployment more than 20 years ago, I offered my untrained photographic services to my sister-in-law Nancy. She was a leading realtor in Coldwell-Banke...
12 July, 2023
The “Blue Hour” from On High (a One-Shot Story)
This article’s title is, I think, appropriate. I shot the photo as our Lufthansa Airbus 340 winged its way from Boston to Italy (via Frankfurt) last May. Jetting east lik...
