August 2007

Infrequent Posting and Loss of Right to Illegal Search and Siezure - Aug 7 - One of the things about (not really) maintaining a Web log is that sometimes (read: more often for me than not) one gets sidetracked and...

October 2006

Two Cents - Oct 26 - (Editor's Note: It sure took long enough for me to write something else, didn't it? I guess I just had to get pissed off about...

June 2006

United Airlines Sucks (redux) - updated - Jun 27 - DES MOINES, Iowa--I can't believe it happened again. I get to the airport here, albeit a little late, but I got there and the only...

College World Series -- The End - Jun 20 - OMAHA, Neb.--It's over. Not quite sure how to put it more elequently, but that's pretty short and sweet. Clemson blew a three-run lead and let...

College World Series -- When do I go home? - Jun 20 - OMAHA, Neb.--After losing one game on Sunday evening, the question is now: when do I go home? If I'm to stay in balmy Omaha, Clemson...

College World Series -- When do I go home? - Jun 20 - OMAHA, Neb.--After losing one game on Sunday evening, the question is now: when do I go home? If I'm to stay in balmy Omaha, Clemson...

College World Series -- After Game One - Jun 17 - OMAHA, Neb.--I told the guy sitting next to me that when the Georgia Tech head coach took out his starter, and then his reliever, the...

College World Series - Prologue - Jun 13 - COLUMBIA, S.C.--The drive to the airport was rather easy. With a mix-up on where Tracy was to pick me up out of the way, I...

May 2006

I Belong Here - May 17 - (Editor's note: I hadn't had much to write recently, as evidenced by the lack of entries since January 1. But, here's something to remind you...

January 2006

New Year's Day - Jan 1 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- I believe in coincidences. So, when I rolled over to reach the iPod close to my bed for some slumber tunes this...

October 2005

Pat's Backwater - Oct 7 - ATLANTA, Oct. 2 -- The weekend was punctuated not because the USC football team apparently didn't take the field in Auburn for their 48-7 humiliation,...

September 2005

Motorcade - Sep 12 - WASHINGTON, Sept. 11--I was stopped at 9th and D streets northwest. The light was green, but we were still stopped. A motorcycle cop sped down...

New Prices - Sep 2 - KENLY, N.C.--She was on the telephone when I walked up to the counter. "Uh huh," the clerk said into the receiver, looking off into space....

August 2005

$67 A Barrel! - Aug 13 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- It's been a month since I last wrote something on here. And today, finally, I have something to bitch about. One barrel...

July 2005

In the Presence of an Angel - Jul 12 - She was the last one of a long list of contacts I'd made on April 24, 1993. From Hawaii that morning and afternoon I'd chatted...

Five Times - Jul 3 - One of the greatest feats in the early 21st Century is President Bush's continued success in connecting the unrelated attacks on September 11, 2001, with...

June 2005

Open Letter to Those [Expletive]ers - Jun 7 - Delta Air Lines Customer Care P.O. Box 20980 Atlanta, Georgia 30320-9820 Dear Sir or Madam: I have been a happy and faithful Delta Air Lines...

May 2005

Republican Kingdom - May 22 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- There are some things that make you throw your hands up in the air and wonder. Gas prices have leveled off at...

April 2005

A Missed Flight - Apr 16 - COLUMBIA, S.C. - The last time I woke with a start like that I was late for school in 1986. The clock face read 5:50...

March 2005

What happened? - Mar 16 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- I used to be able to see. I used to be able to photograph things my way in any situation. Not anymore....

February 2005

Repression and Trips to Europe - Feb 20 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- We're starting the fifth year of what will now be an eight-year furlough from the world community. President Bush (43) is in...

Back in The City - Feb 2 - NEW YORK -- The E train from JFK into town was pretty empty at Sutphin Boulevard in Queens. I had nothing else to do other...

I'm. Getting. Older - Feb 2 - The following things have happened or been realized, yet in no particular order. I have... grasped the concept of organization... commenced the use of matching...

January 2005

Garden State - Jan 25 - Rented a movie tonight, something I'd wanted to see since its trailer's release in June. Garden State rocked. I have to admit that I'm rather...

Bracing Myself - Jan 22 - Go back and look at the polls taken in 2004 just before the presidential election. You found that all of the polls funded and published...

December 2004

Medal of What?! - Dec 16 - FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – “Widespread mismanagement” is just the start of what the UN Security Council’s monitoring board of Iraqi development alleges. The U.S. relied...

The Killer Fs - Dec 14 - MEMPHIS, Tenn. – I never thought I’d see the day that the Miami Dolphins were as piss poor on the field as the 1980s Green...

November 2004

We Remember Them - Nov 16 - GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Paper and cardboard debris rained down on the stands here Friday night from the fireworks. Gator Growl producers learned a lesson by...

Cuban Coffee and Gas - Nov 6 - MIAMI – Northeast 7th Street and 27th Avenue on the way to the Orange Bowl saw a stop for that safety tank of gas. It’s...

Four More of W - Nov 5 - FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – I’m still in shock about last Tuesday. Driving around down here, at home, I see more anti-Bush items than I have...

The Dolphins Suck and I'm Pissed! - Nov 2 - The Dolphins have no desire to perform anymore. None. It’s so disconcerting. It looks like they’re just going through the motions in the Meadowlands after...

October 2004

Random Airport Thoughts - Oct 8 - DULLES, Va. – Random airport thoughts of the past couple of weeks. It’s pointless to dress before going through airport security. One should simply go...

September 2004

Hairpiece!!! - Sep 16 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – He looks ever the professor. Reclined to his right side, he sits in the corner of the coffee house near the university...

Slackass - Sep 13 - I've been rather slack, haven't I? But what should I do, write about everything that happens to me in some "why the fuck does this...

August 2004

Chinese iPod - Aug 1 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – One of the cities most recently put on the “list of places to visit” is Shanghai. It doesn’t rank up there with...

June 2004

I Just Live Here - Jun 12 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – At times I find it rather easy to forget I live in South Carolina. That’s not a dig on the state, but...

May 2004

Not One - May 19 - (Special note: Sorry for the delay in posting. It took almost two weeks, but I finally found something to express myself about that wouldn't appear...

What I'm Dodging Now - May 2 - COLUMBIA, S.C.--It was a year ago that I scared the absolute shit out of my mother. No, of course it wasn't intentional. What kind of...

April 2004

A Fleeting Issue - Apr 4 - It was a fleeting moment. A full second perhaps, but nothing more. But it was probably one of the coolest moments in commercials since Mean...

March 2004

Enough Said - Mar 20 - Need I say more?...

Addiction - Mar 9 - CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Rollins killed last Tuesday. His form was rare. The Tremont Music Theater on Charlotte’s south side was dank. Indie band bumper stickers...

February 2004

Questionnaire - Feb 29 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – I had a whim. One of Saturday Night Live’s spoofed shows is Inside The Actor’s Studio hosted by James Lipton. My favorite...

Run, Ralph, Run! - Feb 22 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- I’m conflicted. Ralph Nader just announced his intention to run as an independent candidate for the presidency of the United States this...

Friday Blur - Feb 21 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- My Friday was a blur. I shot four assignments, but the stuff went through both my cameras and brain barely registering. Something...

Hank Plays Palm - Feb 9 - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Went to see Henry Rollins at the end of January at the Carefree Theater. That guy is righteous. Period. It...

January 2004

Perchance to Dream - Jan 22 - (Note: The following happened on Saturday, 301316Z DEC 03. I've finally gotten around to finishing it because it’d been rather emotional to write this and...

I Once Thought - Jan 15 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- I once thought that Washington, D.C., existed solely to house the United States government; that it contained nothing but the buildings which...

Literary Girly-Dud - Jan 10 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- I met her. Tonight. The literary girly-girl, that is. Oh, yeah . . . (Fast forward a month later.) . . ....

December 2003

Silence and Lunacy - Dec 29 - ATLANTA – She told her friend everything in one of those “like-you-know” accents one aisle away. I couldn’t help but hear because while a book...

To Do - Dec 7 - KOH PHA-NGAN, Thailand -- Things to do: wake up eat play cards nap pee eat breathe drink sleep repeat any of above at necessary intervals...

All Worth It - Dec 6 - KOH PHA-NGAN, Thailand – We lead a whimsical existence here. Not boring. Not trivial. The day started about 5 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep any...

Getting to Thailand - Dec 4 - BANGKOK – Holy crap I’m in Thailand. It’s nowhere near the last ‘holy crap’ feeling I’d had earlier this year. Getting here was like slipping...

November 2003

Re-experience - Nov 25 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – A post came on the list to read 67 Days In Iraq by a fellow Knight Ridder photographer. I did as suggested....

On T.V. - Nov 17 - COLUMBIA, S.C. – Hut! Chris Leak took the ball from the center and handed it off to DeShawn Wynn. The back followed blockers, broke two...

October 2003

Silent Bass - Oct 27 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Nothing could have prepared me for this Google search. It was a whim answered with the Internet equivalent to a slap in...

Fish Win, Fish Win!!! - Oct 26 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Now I’m happy. Last week they knocked off the Cubs to continue the curse of the goat on the North Side. It...

Curses, Foiled Again - Oct 18 - RALEIGH, N.C. -- Well, the Fish won it. Yippie? Oh, I don’t know what to feel. Elated that the Marlins won and head to the...

The Governator - Oct 9 - Now what? California will have an actor-governor in office who probably doesn’t know what to do with the governor's office now that he’s won it....

September 2003

Instant Gratification - Sep 26 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Talk of building up troops to quell an Iraqi threat started just more than a year ago. The president pushed the war...

Smoke This - Sep 2 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Just like our current President Bush and Vice President Cheney called their former oil business buddies together to formulate a national energy...

August 2003

Ex-pat Perhaps - Aug 19 - Not that I haven’t done anything lately, it’s just that I haven’t wanted to. Topics have been plentiful, true, but I just haven’t thought much...

July 2003

Trafficking in Bar-B-Que - Jul 29 - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It's the mere fact that I was able to share a Southern delicacy in South Florida with two close friends. (Remember,...

The Blame Game - Jul 23 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- It didn’t work when the Bush administration tried to pin bad intelligence on Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet. And getting deputy...

June 2003

Lazy Day - Jun 17 - FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The intracoastal waterway that separates the Atlantic Ocean's coastline from the Florida mainland is peaceful drift of boats this Tuesday afternoon....

May 2003

Ten Dinars! - May 31 - IRAQ HIGHWAY 1 – Little traffic populated Baghdad’s streets as dawn broke Saturday. Light slowly filtered through a thick blanket of clouds hovering over central...

12 Days Later - May 28 - BAGHDAD, Iraq – It’s been 12 days since I had last written. Perhaps that’s a sign that I’ve been getting a bit tired of Iraq...

No Bakshish! - May 16 - BAGHDAD, Iraq – What baffles my mind isn’t that I’m sitting in a Baghdad hotel. Consider the following scene. Last night Carl Juste and I...

Going Out of Business - May 11 - AN NAJAF, Iraq – I would be the only person on the roof of the hotel if it weren’t for these TV guys setting up...

Shiite BMOC - May 10 - AL BASRAH, Iraq – The scene at the Shalamcheh border crossing was expected. A hoard of Iraqis, more than 2,000 strong, were bused to the...

Golden Gunfire - May 2 - AN NAJAF, Iraq – The shooting started when the day was peaking at magic hour. Golden sunlight kissed the Earth just as gunfire poured from...

April 2003

A Proper Burial - Apr 30 - AN NAJAF, Iraq - The body was frigid and was flipped over like a door on a hinge for its clothes to be cut off....

Democratic Pixie Dust - Apr 27 - AN NAJAF, Iraq – A small incandescent lamp and a television tuned to Al Jazeera lit the lounge. Two well-used sofas faced each other and...

Ask Zahraa - Apr 24 - AN NAJAF, Iraq – Sporadic gunfire heard from the roof of the hotel quells any bit of relaxed mood I get into at the end...

Pilgrimage - Apr 22 - KARBALA, Iraq – Today was an amazing day. I started the day as nervous as anyone could be, my first real day covering any kind...

Holy Crap - Apr 21 - AN NAJAF, Iraq – Holy crap, I’m in Iraq. I never thought I’d see the day that I’d take up residence here, albeit temporarily. But...

To Iraq - Apr 20 - BRUSSELS, Belgium – The trans-Atlantic and trans-European flights serve as the ultimate time warp for things to come. I needed a slow transition to a...

Eight Pounds - Apr 13 - CHICAGO – It’s something you watch others endure but rarely experience. It took longer to get from the check-in counter to my gate than from...

Puke! - Apr 12 - CHICAGO – The last 24 hours were pure hell. It all started after dinner Wednesday night, a dinner that was sitting out since before the...

March 2003

Click, Scribble Quote - Mar 28 - WIESBADEN, Germany - Notification came in the form of a late afternoon phone call last Friday. I was told in no uncertain terms to get...

R-P-G!!! - Mar 28 - LANDSTUHL, Germany � There was no time. The Humvee's gunner, Army Sgt. Charles Horgan, barely yelled, "R-P-G!!!" before the front of the vehicle erupted in...

YYZ - Mar 23 - TORONTO, Canada -- The pentagon looked ironically peaceful from above. The little Canadair jet took its required left turn after leaving Reagan National Airport to...

60 Minuscule Minutes - Mar 17 - President Bush fancies himself the missionary of democracy. Iraqis will get a people's government and they had better like it because the United States won't...

Smoke Screen - Mar 16 - The smoke screen in the United Nations has hidden what war is supposed to look like. During a frantic search for votes in Security Council,...

Cast Free - Mar 3 - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- No more personal reminder of the terrorism threat level as the Gator orange cast was sawed off of my right forearm this...

February 2003

Typing and Shoe-Tying - Feb 22 - COLUMBIA, S.C. - The orthopedist visit came a week after being back in the States. Did the typical bit; remove the plaster splint and wrap,...

The Gates Sat Open - Feb 2 - DACHAU, Germany -- The drive from Eschenbach to Freising was picturesque. Snowplowed blacktop of the B470 and the A93 cut through the white Bavarian landscape...

Crack! - Feb 1 - ESCHENBACH, Germany – The view from my hospital room Wednesday morning was magnificent. A fresh snow that began late Tuesday night blanketed the rural Bavarian...

January 2003

The Pleasure is Mine - Jan 26 - GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – After five days in Nuremberg without hearing much of a peep from the Army, fear that I’d get no access at all...

Spirals Suck - Jan 23 - NUREMBERG, Germany – Driving through the Bavarian countryside to meet two native South Carolinians for a story, I felt incredibly alone flipping radio channels not...

Papers Please - Jan 19 - FRANKFURT, Germany – Somehow the surprise of travel is diluted with each passing year. The wonder of global travel needn’t be viewed with the same...

Three Equal Pieces - Jan 2 - KENDALL, Fla. -- He smiled after I hugged his fiancé, a close friend from my days in Tallahassee. Eager to meet each other we took...

December 2002

Golf's Gender Bender - Dec 5 - Bring your greenbacks, ladies. The Augusta National Golf Club will gladly clean your pockets come April when you flock to Augusta, Ga., for the 2003...

How Sweet It Is - Dec 1 - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- One drive does not a winning effort make. Just because Rex Grossman lead the Gators offense through an 84-yard, third quarter touchdown...

November 2002

Journaling Refersher - Nov 30 - More than a dozen years ago I took my second-semester college English class, ENC1102. It was my first taste of diagnostic writing sans the formulaic...

Sad Day in U.S. Politics - Nov 6 - I fell alseep Tuesday night to the Republican party having won at least half of the seats in the U.S. Senate. I awoke frightened on...

October 2002

Thanks for the Body - Oct 21 - Dear Mom and Dad, Thank you for the resilient and durable body you've given me. Your loving craftsmanship just shy of 33 years ago has...

My Feet Hurt - Oct 14 - "My feet hurt," she told her husband. The expectant mother looked slightly up at her man with stressed puppy dog eyes that told him heíd...

She Might Be a Plumber - Oct 9 - Fact. Women are beautiful. Nothing is more wonderful than a well-built woman's backside inside of a form-fitting pair of Levis. I'm an "ass man." It's...

Hartsfield Funnies - Oct 5 - Sitting in the window of the airport coffee shop, displayed like the Mac geek I've become, I blog while sipping my sweetened half and half...

Anniversary - Oct 3 - The flight from Atlanta to Tallahassee went by so uneventfully that I barely remember it. Just more than 90 minutes inside Hartsfield International Airport for...

September 2002

Golden Years Flow - Sep 27 - Eyewitness testimony has recently come into question. Faulty memory, created memory, whatever it is they say. But I know exactly what I saw, and it...

O' to be a Southpaw - Sep 23 - (Recently updated post orthopedic visit. Scroll down to find more text.) Another collision within three weeks of the last one. It seemed that I was...

The Way to My Heart - Sep 20 - The day started off simply enough. I walked into the office and went for my assignment box and fished out two pieces of paper. For...

Election Headshake - Sep 15 - I'm embarassed. As a Floridian transplant, I have to answer for all of the screw-ups in my home state. And to have yet another election...

My Collision With Jesus - Sep 6 - I changed lanes after turning onto Elmwood Avenue from Bull Street getting behind her and honking a bit at her 25 mile-per-hour speed. Her driving...

August 2002

It's Alive! - Aug 23 - No, I'm not kidding. There's finally something new on the weblog. I know, I know. I've been rather slack in writing in the ol' blog...

June 2002

Under Stand - Jun 28 - It's simple and to the point. They didn't use ambiguous speech. "Congress shall make no law," it started, they chose to use the word shall...

The Other Plate - Jun 23 - We sat down to dinner last night after what seemed like a 20- or 30-minute drive around the city. The conversation during the drive was...

Seinfeld - Jun 14 - So this must be what writer's block is like. I've barely been able to scratch two syllables together, let alone come up with something fun...

Navajo Marines - Jun 13 - I'm not surprised really. It's not the first time that Hollywood has taken artistic liberty using unverified information to make a point. But the story...

Damn that Yoga Woman - Jun 6 - There were two minutes left in my run when the yoga woman started getting the room ready for class. The whole time I'm thinking that...

Catty Dreams - Jun 4 - I love watching my cats dream. They usually sleep curled, with their chins parallel to the ceiling, or noses tucked into the top of their...

May 2002

Rainy Saturday - May 4 - A furry nose nudged my sleeping right hand this morning. It served the dual purpose of feline alarm clock and satisfying his demand for attention...

April 2002

Pedophiles Are Out! (or not) - Apr 26 - The issue of pedophiles in the Catholic Church became far murkier than expected Wednesday. At first, some American cardinals believed a 'one strike and you're...

One More Round - Apr 21 - The molasses race continues today at beautiful Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Today we find out who will be the last...

Parental Translators - Apr 15 - Confusing as it may seem to some parents, when people other than themselves ask questions of their young children -- kids who are...say, between 3...

March 2002

Guns: 1 - Boston: 0 - Mar 28 - Seems the City of Boston's lawsuit against various firearm manufacturers has fallen victim to budget woes. Reports say $30,000 a month was spent by the...

From Men to Women - Mar 24 - How much easier it is that there's more pressure to produce worthwhile pictures at my current out of town assignment, but that it doesn't seem...

And Then There Were Two - Mar 8 - Last night when I came home from work, Corri walked down the half flight of stairs from the upper portion of the house to the...

Alive and Frustrating as Hell - Mar 4 - The pager started blinking and vibrating. Since i was closer to the host(ess) stand, I took the device to present it in exchange for our...

Gush - Mar 2 - A visitor graces the halls of my house and the attention of my three cats. She's a pleasure, really, to have staying in my house....

February 2002

Soon There Will Be Two - Feb 23 - There was no good news on the telephone from Columbia today. none. Today I found out that I'm losing a friend. I thought she'd beaten...

From the Mouths of Babes - Feb 21 - We at ThisHereBlog are shocked by relatively little. Shock did not come when it was reported that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered....

It's Finally Over - Feb 18 - Four days of testosterone-filled men (mostly) driving really fast cars and trucks around an oval might be exciting for some people, but it gets old...

It Happens to Everyone - Feb 13 - (Special note: we at ThisHereBlog usually forget something, just one thing, when we go on road trips. This one was no different.) I left tuesday...

If it Doesn't Happen - Feb 8 - It's strange how head movies begin. Reporter and photographer go out to cover story. Editor sits in office and imagines just how things will be...

January 2002

The Past Few Days - Jan 4 - One big road trip. Started out on New Year's Morning in Boise, Idaho. Finishing the trip to the Humanitarian Bowl (aka the Boise State Bowl)....

Corporate New Year - Jan 1 - I can't believe i saw this tonight. I'm sitting in Boise, Idaho, tired as hell after working today. We, the east coast photographers who covered...

December 2001

United Airlines Sucks - Dec 27 - I get to the airport and begin standing in line for the United Airlines counter -- the only ticket line in the airport -- to...

List - Dec 21 - Hours spent taking pictures today: 5 Miles traveled at sea: 60,000 (roughly) Miles put on my cars: 180,000 (give or take) Engines have been in...

I Can Make You Some - Dec 19 - I went to Gainesville over the weekend to see a good friend graduate (congrats on completing the eight-year program, Weimar!). Hung out on Saturday after...

What's With the Name John Walker? - Dec 11 - It started, what investigators think, back in 1967 when John A. Walker Jr. transferred to Submarine Forces Atlantic Fleet and began spying for the then...

November 2001

They Just Don't Know - Nov 18 - As the basic description of ThisHereBlog states (that used to be over there on the left side of this thing), I live in South Carolina...

They Pay Me for This - Nov 11 - Covered yet another football game again last night...one where a team clinched their first berth in a BCS bowl game. So the fans tore the...

October 2001

Ethics Schmethics - Oct 28 - Go down to Charleston to photograph Coast Guardsmen patroling the Cooper River for story about new Coast Guard policy on securing shipping harbors. Get to...

Dissent - Oct 19 - The United States of America was built on dissent. The idea of dissent is written into the Constitution of the United States of America in...

Uninspired Inspiration - Oct 17 - (Note to ThisHereBlog readers: I have been so uninspired to write lately that this requires an entry.) Nothing has been happening that hasn't been extensively...

Blair's Speech Poetry - Oct 3 - In case you missed it, and would like to read British Prime Minister Tony Blair's remarks to the British Labor Party, you should. Among the...

September 2001

Back In My Element - Sep 29 - Up at 5 a.m. On the plane by 7:15 a.m. in Kansas City. Landed just after 10 a.m. and ate Fat Matt's Rib Shack by...

It's Over and I'm Spent - Sep 28 - What hell. I knew it was going to be difficult, but that was ridiculous. Going from, "Fuck, I don't have a story to work on,"...

No Time for Selfishness - Sep 21 - I have a friend -- who shall remain nameless -- who is in the reserves of the U.S. military. It was made clear to me...

Falwell, You Should Just Fall - Sep 16 - Get this... The Rev. Jerry Falwell...yeah, the tubby one with grey hair who is about to keel over from clogged arteries...that Rev. Falwell...said this within...

We Must Continue - Sep 12 - The world is forever changed; that I do not debate. Like every other American citizen I am deeply angered that any group of people would...

Another Date for Infamy - Sep 11 - I remember only a few days in my lifetime...days that mark history, awe and/or terror. Jan. 28, 1986: The day the Challenger exploded... Dec. 21,...

August 2001

Vicious Pit Bull My Ass - Aug 31 - So I get this photo request to go out and shoot a picture of an American Staffordshire (or Pit Bull) Terrier at an animal shelter...

July 2001

Culture Shock - Jul 29 - 28 July, 11 p.m. ...Columbia, S.C. I've been back in South Carolina for 15 minutes, not including taxi of the airplane I was riding in....

Kellie With an 'ie' - Jul 29 - 2120 on the tarmac at La Guardia Airport in Queens, N.Y. ... So, I'm on the rather empty flight from New York back to wretched...

Visit to Mecca - Jul 10 - We walked into the Newseum on Saturday to find the requisite metal detector and security check that all Washington-area buildings seem to have. Passed through...

June 2001

Bad Rite Aide-Like Experience - Jun 27 - So I'm in well known burger joint one day for lunch. I just happen to be last in line behind this nice-looking, little woman with...

Frustrations Subside - Jun 17 - So I went down on Friday with some trepidation to Gillinsonville, South Carolina, to meet Christine and Martin Terry, a couple who have been married...

Frustrations - Jun 14 - Find out about 105-year-old man near Savannah... Find out he and his family are celebrating 105th birthday Saturday, the day before father's day... Four generations...

Time to Pay the Piper - Jun 11 - I remember the day fairly well. It was a warm, sunny day in Hawai'i -- kinda like it is most days there. I was loitering,...

A Loss for Due Process - Jun 7 - Timothy McVeigh is guilty as sin. No doubt about it...he's even admitted it. But thanks to the FBI, and now four judges in the 10th...

D-Day - Jun 6 - For all those men who parachutted into enemy territory 5 June 1944, and those men who hit the beaches at Normandy on 6 June 1944,...

My Eyes Fill With Pride - Jun 3 - I recently had the honor of meeting and photographing a man who stands as an emblem in my eyes for pride in service. This man,...

May 2001

The Moon - May 8 - On my drive home today I had the pleasure of a peaceful air, a misty-like sky and a full moon that hung in the sky...

Inspirations - May 5 - Even after being out of the military for almost six years, I still find inspiration in veterans like Dorie Miller who served on the USS...