Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
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Silver Bank: Where’s Whaledo? March 2019
Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 2019 I rewarded myself with a birthday gift this year, a week devoted to searching » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival 2019: Silver Anniversary
Overheard at the start of this year’s Sedona International Film Festival, directed to festival director Patrick Schweiss: “Is this a good film? ‘Cause » Read more
2018 Highlights
2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more
Spring is sprung in NYC: April 2018 (Part 2)
Saturday, April 21, 2018 The second half of our first ever 2-week stay in NYC was devoted to catching up with old » Read more
2017 Highlights
The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more
Sedona Film Festival, February 2017
Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2017 We had an epic, literally tempestuous, start to our annual Sedona film festival week » Read more
Back to Baja, October, 2017
Thursday October 12, 2017 It had been many years since we last dove in Baja, but in many ways, returning there was » Read more
2016 Highlights
It’s tough to pick a single image to represent a whole year! In the end, this image, taken in Ponto-cho, an atmospheric » Read more
Sedona Film Festival 2016
The annual Sedona International Film Festival (SIFF) has become a yearly end of winter highlight for us. Always the last week in » Read more