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While seeing the highlights of this city, my 24 hour visit managed to coincide with the deadline day for the Occupy folk to vacate City Hall. 5pm came and went and they stayed. No violence; no police action; lots of news coverage. Don’t know what happened the next day, but I did get some shots… Continue reading Occupy Philadelphia

If you received my August Art News and tried to read it in your browser, you didn’t succeed!  Apologies for forgetting to change the link (since June!).  I’ve now added a menu item to this site that will link to the newsletter archives in case you’re so inclined.

My cousins Shirley and Bill Freeman have just completed a project in memory of her parents, my dear cousins who both died in 2008. Shirley and Bill sponsored a Bright Space in the Bayview Hunters Point area which will open next week. [Bright Spaces is a program of the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, whose… Continue reading And now for something completely different

This is just a good story – emailed to me by a friend in NY. No politics, no religion….enjoy! I did. ************************************************************************* This wonderful piece by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large and small, former president of NBC News and 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing is well worth reading. Here goes…. My father… Continue reading A Good Story

Well, they say “in for a penny, in for a pound”….  So I shut my eyes and spent lots of pounds – well, OK, it was dollars – on a large format printer so that I could print my own photographs.  It’s a monster piece of kit sitting on my desk – yes, on a… Continue reading Printer

From a sunset hike out to the Mavericks last weekend. Nice evening, nice people, good excercise, photos, seafood and dancing.  Doesn’t get too much better.

Funny and hopefully not predictive headlines for 2030