Visible Woman

When you let yourself off that leash of writing every day, then there are questions. How often should you show up? And what to write about? ...

Yeah. It's the not knowing that drags us along. We can predict certain things, assign them a probability, but we don't know until it...

Or is it? It's instructive to look at pictures taken before you were born, isn't it? My sister looks happy, doesn't she? Just ki...

The original of this photo is on a newly exposed clean part of my desk, stacked among others representing milestones in my dad's life. I...

I haven't found any of him as a young kid, but I've captured him in 1941 with Mom. He's about twenty-five. I have actually been ...

I have this obsession with getting things tidy. I long for clean neat rooms, open space on the desk, neat drawers and closets where you can ...

So yesterday was Bastille Day. I was driving home from the club and the local public radio station was playing a rousing version of La Marse...

The world is an enormous place. Sometimes your little part of it feels like it's closing in, however. This photo was taken out the hotel...

This picture was taken on Cole Avenue in Dallas. When I was living nearby (on Abbott St. in Highland Park) there was an upscale (to me) rest...

This will be the last one today. Shops like this one beg to be photographed. I promise to mentally leave Paris any day now. Although I don...

There's our portrait, in a art gallery window in Paris. Somehow I prefer this sort of portrait to the ones where you hand over the came...

I like this one because the graceful Degas sculptures of ballerinas are being studied rather intently by these decidedly punk guys. You have...

I've packed for our little trip, mostly. And we are going out tonight in a couple of hours. I've reviewed the day's Wimbledon pl...

Soon I'm going to a high school reunion and I was thinking how the class changes, as a group. Marriages, divorces, deaths, children. An...

In France, food is serious business. And there are still many specialists. Bakeries, pastry shops, fish shops, cheese shops. Waiters are pro...

I knew I should probably get up, but there was this gentle rain falling and the bed felt so good. Then the phone rang. Well, it was nearly 8...

I'm posting this because I noticed that the Paris Daily Photo blog had exhibited some of these. This cow was in the Place de Marché St....

Today's picture shows a couple of glasses of Picon Bière (beer with a shot of Picon pastis) on a table at the famed Café de Flore in Par...

I got an e-mail from a friend today with the subject line 'Left Field Connections.' He and his wife met some cool young women and th...

The picture shows a sign pasted on a tombstone at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. Basically I think it is saying that the gravesite is c...