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Background image: A monochrome winter morning in North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains.
A website of writing and photography
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Welcome
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This home page is the portal to:
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A portfolio of images from my photography hobby.
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An archive of the photo-illustrated newsletters that I send to family and friends.
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A group of videos that I have made in recent years as part of a new hobby and for the website I designed and manage for the Stone Church of Willow Glen in San Jose, California.
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A collection of some of the stories I wrote as a sports writer for the San Jose Mercury News and the stories behind them.
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My novel, Through the Heart of the South.
Latest newsletters
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Click the cover image to select a newsletter. Here's the page that contains an archive of newsletters from my trips and adventures.
Fourth of July​
July 4, 2024
Europe trip
May 13, 2024
May 14, 2024
May 15-19, 2024
May 15-19, 2024
May 20-23, 2024
May 4, 2024
May 5, 2024
May 5, 2024
May 7, 2024
May 9, 2024
May 10, 2024