Cartography

Cartography

 Emily Waters Shearer Cartography  I am a man with a penchant for studying maps and their narratives trapped in the dimension of border and landmark, squiggle of river, brushstroke of shoreline.   I quantify canyons and caves with the tools of a surveyor:...

beginnings, middles and endings

I do good beginning, ask anyone who knows me. If you want an idea about how to get from here to there, where to move to, what new career would suit you best, or what’s a fun thing to do with $50 – go ask Dulcie, she’s got a million of them.  Starting a new day, a new...
Becoming a Photographer

Becoming a Photographer

I didn’t think much about photography until 5 years ago. I was going on my first trip to Paris! Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I didn’t even own a camera, so two weeks before I left I went out and bought myself my first point-and-shoot. I land...
Painting and Perfectionism

Painting and Perfectionism

“Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get...

training bras

Church was the weirdest thing in the world when I was a kid.  We went – my sister, my brother, my mother and father and me – to a very wooden congregational church in New Rye, NH.  Women wore dresses and gloves and men wore dark suits and white shirts and...

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