Paths I have walked, literally, as I have explored the countryside around me from the time I could walk, and figuratively, as I walk through life.
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About
I was first inspired by the beauty of the local landscapes of Carnegie and the trails and byways along the Chartiers Creek and throughout the Chartiers Valley, paths I’ve been walking since I began to walk. Those paths led me away to learn new things, and led me back, to interpret what I’ve found.
My biggest inspiration for poetry, prose and artwork is still the world right around me, and I enjoy the opportunity to share it from the perspective of one who walks and hikes and bikes and carries a camera, art materials and journal everywhere—even around the house—so the inspirations are fresh.
The familiarity of weather and structure and cultural habit are a starting point, a base to build upon as I walk other paths while building my stories.
Latest Journeys
Stronger Than Hate
Today is the 7th anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, PA. I’ve lived in the South Hills of Pittsburgh all my life. I’ve long recognized our city’s and region’s shortcomings in integrating and welcoming people of other races, ethnicities and religions though for two centuries we’ve been settled by people from nearly …
Overcast: Essay in Progress
It’s a cool and dark and undecided day and I am unsettled. It’s trying to be 72° and sunny in October, obedient to the forecast. Yesterday was just as undecided, starting clear and sunny and heading toward warm but heavy overcast unexpectedly slid across the entire bowl of blue sky as if some unseen hand …
September 11, and September 12
The mornings this September have had that particular autumnal cool with a little mist and I thought the spell might have been broken. But the morning this September 11 is sunny, blue, and warm, and eerily quiet, so much like that morning 24 years ago when I was painting a couple of wooden chairs with …
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