Throwback: Fake cover for imaginary album by faux band. Really!

Back in the late 1970s, our two bedroom, one-bath apartment in Adelphi, Md., was always rocking. Yes, Twenty, Aggo and I were eyebrows deep into two years of hard university time within those walls in the cockroach-inhabitated complex we used to lovingly call Residential Plaza, dropping their officious P from the first name because that…

The mystery prize from the other side of the big pond

Just this morning I received an email from my dear BloggyVille friend Rachel, putting me on alert that she’d put the prize from her Could Do Worse: Adventures in London anniversary sweepstakes in the post. A bit back Rachel had noted how she’d been publishing her words and photographs here for several years, and would…

Love in Ten Lines — Challenge

All you need is … Well, all I need is to write a 10-line poem about love, thanks to my friend Belinda, the marvelous mind behind the always interesting blog Idiot Writing. Belinda tagged me in the Love in Ten Lines Challenge. Poetry! Here are the rules. •Write about love using only 10 lines. •Use…

Eclectic Corner: Splash of Color

This month’s edition of Eclectic Corner features the theme “Splash of Colour.” Justine has done herself proud once again, you’ll see if you click that link above, with a wonderful photograph, quote and haiku of her own to get our juices stirring to follow her lead. All we have to do is post a picture,…

Photo 101: We depart in triumph

The Final Lesson. I expected something dramatic as we say farewell to Photo 101, and the words sent by Krista for lesson 20 did not disappoint. Triumph and contrast. Life serves some of the first to the fortunate and plenty of the second, always. I looked through the photographs I’ve taken these four weeks on…

The Little Bitty in Syracuse, N.Y.

Photo 101: Keeping my edge aligned

As Photo 101 winds down in week four, I want to make sure I concentrate hard. You know. Keep my edge. Make sure I use these parcels of enlightenment to gain as much knowledge to make my blog photographs captured by my iPhone 6 and iPad Air as good as they can be. So I…

Photo 101: Bloggers under glass

It was the words of my longtime friend Jim McKeever, the brain behind the terrific blog Irish Investigations that convinced me that signing up for Photo 101 was a good idea. So when he suggested that a working lunch to discuss a weekday assignment may be mandatory, I was two thumbs up. Lesson 17, Cheri’s…