Higher Than I’d Ever Been Before
The mood in the plane was jovial, like teenagers out on their first date. We were about to do something that had never been done before...
A Ten
I find it curious that we use the same number to define the most beautiful woman imaginable, and also the worst possible pain we have...
Duzrd Doors (Jim Uses Them)
Most of my nightmares are so vicious, so despicable, and so patently evil that they would make “Nightmare on Elm Street” look like a...
In Your Own Backyard
I've always enjoyed challenging myself to ‘see’ as hard as I could in my own backyard first -- before wandering out into the world to...
“I Wanna Get Laid”
In 1993 I was working as a long-term substitute Language Arts teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Indio CA. Teaching was a very natural...
Drawer of Dreams
When I was a child, mom and dad would take me to New York to visit my grandparents. They lived in Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant) and were...
A Tuna Fish Sandwich Saved My Life
My father and his brother both landed on Omaha Beach on June 6,1944. He was 19 years old. When I think back to where I was (and who I...
Make it hurt
The simple fact that prison is not the most tedious and boring place in the world (as it was through the 1950’s) is an indication of why...
The Holiday Inn
It was the summer of 1969 and I needed a job to make a little cash. I had just finished my second year of school at Wilkes College – a...
Gonzo Skydiving
At 4500 feet the glider pilot signaled to me it was time. We put our hands on the top of the cockpit canopy and pushed up hard against...
On Drawing A Line In The Sand
There will be unequivocal moments in everyone’s life when they must make a decision that will dramatically affect their existence moving...
On The Purpose of Life
The physical hardships of aging, while daunting, provide a sort of exclamation mark on your life at this point in time. When you begin to...
Camel Sex in Pittsburgh
While I didn’t understand its significance at the time, watching two camels having sex in Pittsburgh has had a profound effect on my...
Neighbors
We are fortunate to have had such magnificent neighbors for the 30+ years since we built our home, I thought I’d share some of the...
The Last 72 Hours
The “F” word, Yep, I use it all the time. The “N” word, Yep, I've used that too. But the “C” word! The “C” word! I've never used it and...
Perseverance
“Surround yourself with people better than you are.” My brother-in-law, the wisest man I know, told me that 50 years ago. I have always...
“We May Have to Remove Your Colon…”
The words went right over my head as they prepared to move me into surgery. When the doctor said “You are beginning to go septic”, I knew...
On the Border
It’s been so long, but the memories are still here. It was somewhere on the border between New York and Canada. Four of us made the trip...
The Invisible Tree
Complacency has always been my biggest nemesis. Seeing as a person is different from seeing as a photographer. I always try to keep my...
He-Man Sushi
Every two years I make the trip into Riverside / Corona to requalify for my CCW (concealed carry). Firearms Training Associates in...