Annabelle's Aspirin

Big things are afoot these past eight weeks. Welcome Felix Wolfe, born May 1, 2012 weighing 5lbs 14oz.

I read the newspaper. I currently subscribe to two newspapers-- one's a local rag that's my mainline to nearby politics, and happe...

Detroit circa 1904. "Fountain of ice, Washington Boulevard."8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.     ...

The New York Times ran an article yesterday about the upcoming digitization (and availability) of Alan Lomax's collection of field...

Washington DC's preeminent accordionist, Merv Conn died on December 20. I called him more than a decade ago when I was living with...

Piedmont blues guitarist and singer Blind Boy Fuller (b. 1907, d. 1941). His song "Truckin' My Blues Away" was the origi...

Jesse Fuller wrote The Monkey and the Engineer . A song covered by many musicians, including the Grateful Dead, and more recently Dave Ra...

I love this sign. This bar is located in the Dingle , in Cumberland, Maryland. Yes, the wood chuck is a groundhog . In literary parlanc...

  I recently scanned some old negatives for a chapbook I'm making and came across this image of my former neighbor Naomi's wind...

Mike , 2006 Plaster, mop, wood, ...

This autumn's swifts, August 6, 2011 7:15 pm

Moyra Davey's work is featured in Moma's most recent exhibition of New Photography. The work is direct, deep. See more of h...

Laura Sharp Wilson has a website ! Women's Relief Society , 2010 Acrylic and graphite on Unryu paper mounted on wood pan...

Just last night I received Richmond Magazine's Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts. The prize is given ann...