I was twenty-seven when I got my first house. My wife Julie and I had been working on finding a place we could afford for almost two years. Finally, however, it came to fruition. There were, of course, all the visits from relatives on both sides. Something about having a new place that makes people think you need houseguests in order to complete the experien...
ADVANCED SABOTAGE Ever since Adam had reached puberty, and 'discovered' girls, the two things he enjoyed most on earth were - in order - black women, and sabotage. His interest in black women was complicated to explain, and something he experienced intensely - bordering closely on a form of religion, almost. It came, after he had reflected on it a great d...
My buddy Nick wanted to drag me to an art show in town. He said I should get some culture for a change. It wasn't that I didn't like art. I just didn't want to be rubbing elbows with a bunch of snooty people. I finally caved in and Nick and I showed up at this art gallery. The main attraction was some woman named Annette. Nick said I would love her art. Onc...
Kavya was born to a Tamil family who moved to Hyderabad. She wasn't allowed to have boyfriends before college and was enlisted into a private education. Once her MBA was done, her parents chose arranged marriage for her. Kavya was trained into becoming a faithful wife and mother from her childhood. Her mom, grandmom and other women in home have the same rest...
"Bye honey, I'm off to Coach Rick's house again!" my wife Michelle called, grabbing her purse and her sunglasses, walking over to where I was sitting and planting a kiss on my lips. "Again?" I asked in surprise. This was the second workout of the day. "Yup," she affirmed. "The state competition is in two weeks and he says I need to spend as much time with...
When you tell someone that you are a Photographer the subject sooner or later turns to "fine art" nudes. I use the little "" because no one wants to come out and say "Hey do you do glamour photography?" It's is always, "So, you must have done some fine art nudes in your time." It is in all of us, that curiosity of the naked figure. And finding someone who ju...
I was sitting in my magic chair watching Holmes on Homes trying to come up with one of our adventures to write about, and then it came to me. My wife was bugging me that she wanted to go to the Christmas Tree Shop at the Holyoke Mall in Holyoke MA. You will have to bear with me as this adventure took place at least 10 years ago, but probably more like 15 y...
Getting married always brings about changes that we do not foresee and expect. This was no exception for me. I had not planned on getting married. Passing 30, I was very happy having dedicated my life to caring for the elderly. A nurse practitioner, I had spent a decade easing suffering for terminally ill and people simply too old to care for themselves....
Amazingly a decade had passed since the very first occasion that Rachel had floated the idea of having some professional, high-class nudes of herself shot as a very special present to myself. As so often is the case, life had gotten in the way and that idea had never developed into anything more substantial than the occasional episode of pillow talk in bed....
Near the area where we were living was a very wide, and most of the time very dry river bed. It was a great place to take pictures, with so many different backgrounds, like nice sand, driftwood trees and so forth. We took off on a weekday to go shoot some nudes of Ilene, figuring there would be no one around the place we wanted to use. Boy, were we ever wro...