One is the Loneliest Number, Or is It?
A young boy sits alone with his thoughts in Kolkata, India.What are his thoughts?What are your thoughts?All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite…
Serving Up Curry and Naan in Kumartuli
Down a narrow, winding lane in Kumartuli (Potter's Town) in Kolkata , India, a vendor is busy serving up curry and naan to the lunch time crowd. The potters here…
Spice Market – Old Delhi
The world's obsession with Indian spices has gone on for many centuries. Spices, and the promise of gold, is what sent Christopher Columbus sailing for the "New World" thinking he…
Contemplation
What is on his mind? What is he looking at, this man sitting on a bench facing the town square in Oxford, Mississippi.
The Grainery
The Grainery, near downtown Raleigh, NC once made Purina dog food. Now it processes soybeans that are mostly shipped to Asia. The building thunderheads and impending storm added interest and…
Butcher Shop – Old Delhi
An open air butcher shop in the labyrinth of alleyways in the spice market area of Old Delhi. The men are engaged in a lively discussion, perhaps about the price…
At the Art Gallery: A Self-portrait
We went to a photography show at an art gallery recently. It was a solo show by a nationally known photographer. Some of the images I thought were quite good,…
Habana Vieja – Where Time Stood Still
Much of Havana looks as it did in the late 1950's. Standing on a street corner in Old Havana is like stepping into a time warp. The ubiquitous Yank Tanks,…
383 Bose Lane, Kolkata, India
 ...there was no doubt that Calcutta produced more writers than Paris and Rome combined, more literary reviews than London and New York, more cinemas than New Delhi, and more publishers…
You Got the Blues?
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ___Justin Timberlake I been in the blues all my life. I'm still…