Advanced Adventing

This year’s calendar combined the exuberance of gift giving with a controlled architectural streak. In other words it was perfect.

Ačiū Vilniui

When an introduction to city coincides with new professional challenges, the photos are rushed but the sense of discovery is doubled.

Check out the cheeky-but-serious wall calendar I co-created with some other eager folks for my son’s elementary school in Warsaw.

How do nearly 500 people fit into one pottery studio in Copenhagen? By doing what Danes do best: sharing with others and observing the rules.

August 15, 2019 in JOURNAL

For this text-free post I’ve selected a dozen photos to tell the fragmented story of a whole season’s worth of simple pleasures.

July 06, 2019 in PORTFOLIO

What makes the Aegean adventure into what it is has to do with that tranquil turquise sea made for swimming, but that is not all.

June 12, 2019 in JOURNAL

A boy’s ninth birthday inspires contemplation of how this unlikely milestone marks not just the child’s life but motherhood, too.

May 04, 2019 in PORTFOLIO

Summing up a trip that transformed both a mom and a son is a task for mixed media, metaphor, and leaving some things unexplained.

Last week I had the honor of attending a UCONN Human Rights Institute conference in memory of my father. Here is what I had to say.

One of the ways I remember my father is through poems he loved and ones I wish we could have read together. Here is a handful.

March 22, 2019 in JOURNAL

Zenlike and modern but more bizarre than I expected, Japan left an impression that is as surprising today as it was ten years ago.

A frivolous experiment becomes a daily practice, gaining meaning and helping guide the way toward more enlightened living.

Click to view paintings by Warsaw-based artist Agnieszka Zawisza and read about their impact on the one taking the photographs.