I have nearly 50 drafts in my blog’s dashboard — waiting, forgotten, abandoned. This week, I encouraged readers at the Daily Post, one of our blogs at WordPress.com, to sift through and revisit these unfinished posts in their dashboard. One of my suggestions to inspire creativity was to pull bits from different drafts and craft “found poetry” from […]

I love Instagram, but it has ruined me. I  love using X-Pro II and Amaro and Valencia and Lo-Fi. I can do a number of things: Disguise the mediocre. Enhance the mundane. Adulterate a purely fine digital photograph with a filter. * * * * * In November, I strolled around the Palace of Fine Arts […]

We fetishize the offline experience, especially in regard to time. I admit I cherish my film photographs and negative rolls in shoeboxes: a tangible buildup of time. Or recently, during a weekend in Sonoma County, my husband and I stayed in a cottage that had a VCR and two movies on VHS —  I had to […]

I present to you my past month’s adventures in England and Scotland, via iPhone 4. With the exception of a handful of shots, most of these are Instagrammed. We spent the past month with family in Kent and London; friends in Oxford; university friends on a beautiful estate near Inverness, Scotland, for the New Year; […]

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. —Henry Miller A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. —Lao Tzu When you get there, there isn’t any there there. —Gertrude Stein These photographs were taken primarily with my Canon G11. For image details, click on […]

I squirm when I sit still. I think about elsewhere, and how we will get there. But I mustn’t overlook this place. Yes, I write about not knowing where or what home is. That something is missing, that here isn’t quite right. Then I walk around. I explore where I live. And I’m reminded that […]