Creatives can succeed best when they use permanent media rather than social platforms. Invest in making your own website popular rather than trying to win the viral lottery of social media, […]
The Creative Economy and Permanent Media

Creatives can succeed best when they use permanent media rather than social platforms. Invest in making your own website popular rather than trying to win the viral lottery of social media, […]
Boston & Maine Connection: Celebrating Valentine’s Day All Month Long Valentine’s Day has become a day of exchanging positive greetings at every level including family and friends and grade school, children exchanging cards if they are physically in classrooms these days. The origin of Valentine’s Day was a Roman festival celebrating spring which has […]
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I had the unique privilege of documenting ESSENCES – A PhotoPoem collaboration between Akiba and Maryam Mermey which is on display at Cundy’s Harbor Library through Labor Day 2019. It’s an exquisite combination of poetry and photos that grew out of their desire to collaborate and effect change via The Transformative Arts. Dr. Maryam Mermey, […]
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Creatives will become the glue binding together our humanity and the machine world. They are more important than ever. […]
My Three Words for 2018 – Business, Art & Technology Continuing a long standing tradition started by Waterville Maine native Chris Brogan, I have been starting out each year with three words to guide my success in the year ahead rather than a series of New Year resolutions that are too easily broken. There is […]
It’s the perfect childhood memory I didn’t have. Now living out in the country it’s raspberry picking season and the bramble scratches my skin as I work my way through raspberry canes that tangle as they always seem to do. No matter. The lure of ripe juicy raspberries just out of reach beckons and I […]
Big Wind Day. #231wind No, this is not about an airline and the problems they run into with a long history of customer satisfaction issues and overbooking. The post came about after seeing this meme passed along this morning from friend Lennox Chase. ” Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above.” […]
Evelyn Dunphy is the real Frist Lady of Katahdin. Long time watercolor artist and champion of the beauty of this region of Maine. […]
Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service. How fitting that on the centennial of the National Park Service, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was declared official by the President of the United States. I was so pleased to have The Cryer select one of my images of Mt.Katahdin and the surrounding area for the September […]
The Magical Marketing of an Eggplant of Mythical Proportion Yes, folks, this is truly an eggplant love story that started many decades ago when I first met my then future father in law. He was a meat and potatoes kind of man. When I first started dating his eldest daughter, I was quickly under suspicion […]