Art, Poetry & Essays • But not necessarily in that order.
I have written about four hundred poems in just one year. And I’ve drawn over five hundred sketches. How did I do it? One day at a time. One stroke at a time. One word at a time. I made a simple goal for myself: write one poem a day. And by setting that simple […]
My son Elijah asked me a brilliant question this morning. Why do we go trick or treating? Leading up to Halloween he asked several other questions. I’ve distilled my answers for you, so that you can reflect on how you may want to answer your child’s curious questions. Why do we go trick or treating? Halloween is […]
Time magazine recently published an article on the critical role bees play in our agricultural systems and how pesticides are contributing to their deaths. In June of 2013, Portland experienced a massive die off of 25,000 bees because of pesticides used to keep linden trees free of aphids. The pesticides we have come to rely […]
I took this close up photo of a spider using a Photojojo macro lens attached to my iPhone. I had to take 166 photos in order to get one or two that I like. I deleted 125 photos and will probably delete more. But that’s the beauty of using a digital camera like the one […]
Macro photos: up close, personal. A macro lens exposes an entire world that the eye cannot see. And takes photos the iPhone can’t. Or can it? The problem with taking macro photos is that it requires a special lens which means carrying a special camera which means carrying a special case for that camera and […]