Journey to Ice and Fire: Iceland
In Iceland, it is all about water, whether it was cold or hot; a rainbow, waterfall, geyser, hot thermal springs, glacier or ocean. The air temperature in August averaged about…
Samples of Making Better Photographs
A deliberate composition in the camera. Being more pleasing to the eye keeps the viewer looking at the details and interested in the total image because all the elements are…
My Life in Pictures
I've been shooting since the Kodak Pocket Instamatic in high school. By the time I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I got my first SLR camera, an Olympus OM-1 with…
Weekly Summary–Week Three
This was a much more manageable week. I got an earlier start, figured out how to do hypertext links and didn't have problems with my laptop's performance. I spent a…
Kindred Story Analysis
The novel Kindred by Octavia Butler, published in 1979, is a science fiction/slave narrative about Dana, a young African American woman and aspiring writer, who finds herself shunted between her…
Coming Out of the Dark
August 2021 was my benchmark, when we started gathering again in the classroom at UMW. It meant that we students would again be in each other's presence after about 15…
Gauchos, The Tango and Malbec
It seems Argentina has a twist on everything interesting in this world! So this is a dream vacation that would create the Joy we talk about in our theme (back…
My Bucket isn’t Bottomless Anymore
This assignment asks if we ever made a mental bucket list of things we ever seriously or jokingly wanted to do. Heck, I live by lists. Lists for the grocery…
Fear, No. PTS, Yes.
I say "Fear, No" because I am not a fearful person. To me, fear has little use except to cripple and stop you in your tracks. When I saw the…
Threading the Family Needle with Letters and Furniture
I possess about 20 letters from my Great Uncle Frank Brownson to his sister, my Great Aunt Lois Brownson, when he was a soldier in the Philippine Islands in 1900-1901…
