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A World of Princesses and Tiaras
I recently shared a picture of my granddaughter Eleanor, Princess Eleanor on Facebook (picture credit goes to my smarter and more attractive sibling, my sister Julie) and I can report with great joy that we are all in agreement: Eleanor is adorable and makes a...
Miss Donna
Miss Donna. Cairo, Illinois, February 2022. When I decided I was going to chuck it all in early February and take my truck and camper on an open-ended road trip spanning most of the US, I knew that Cairo, Illinois had a spot on my itinerary. My photographer...
RIP Bob Mason
Bob Mason was a Navy Sea Bee who served in the South Pacific in WWII. He enlisted when he was 16 years old. A picture was taken of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific...
My Book
With the writing, it’s a longer story. When I was six, I decided I wanted to be a writer. I recognized I had a prolific imagination, a love of words and books, and I felt like I needed to express myself. I wrote through grade school, high school, college and won a national undergraduate writing award. After that, I worked on a novel while spending two years in a Monastery in central Minnesota. Then, I went home to Milwaukee, started taking credits in Social Work at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, and worked with kids with a history of violent crimes, emotional disturbance and gang affiliations. In the meantime, I got married, had two kids, no time for writing, and then I became a cop. During my divorce, while my kids were very young, any time I had by myself during the week when I couldn’t see my kids I ended up writing two manuscripts that I shopped around and they ended up living in shoeboxes in my closet, and I began to write little stories to go along with my photography and reflections on life as a guy who’s been through a lot and is in his sixties.