Haroon Butt is a frequent commenter on the A Life’s Work blog, so I asked him to write something about why he keeps coming back to this blog. Here was his response. Why do I keep coming back here? David … Continued
Today’s guest blogger is Robert Darden, journalism professor at Baylor University, author of Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel … Continued
Laura Bittman Ward submitted this e-mail written by her father. Laura explains: My dad sends out an email every Thursday to a group of his old high school friends who he reconnected with at their 50th reunion a few years … Continued
Nathan Koren, a resident at Arcosanti in the mid 90s, happened upon the blog and sent me a wonderful e-mail. “I’ve written a lot about the experience, but kept most of it unpublished… there’s a passage from a longer piece … Continued
Today’s post was written by cinematographer Andy Bowley. Hardest? That’s easy. I was in Monrovia’s largest cemetery, documenting “Decoration Day,” a Liberian national celebration devoted to cleaning up gravesites and (it must be said) drinking. It was unbearably hot, a … Continued
By Guest Blogger Andy Bowley. This post is best read in conjunction with Andy’s piece about testing his Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera and various lens for our shoot in Waco, Texas. I can probably blame Philip Bloom for … Continued