Month: November 2008

basic instinct….

i feel the bar band drumbeat beat shaking the floor and it flows through my body up from my toes… so i slide in close…physically close, in their space… total strangers …and somehow quickly, inexplicably , become "one" with them….for a few moments i am "transported"…they do not know me..i have not spoken to them…and …

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PATTAYA

                                                        a quick reading of comments under our previous post and you will note that our boys Marcin (with his wife Alex) and Herve are now in Pattaya, Thailand…a quick review of Herve's picture diary tells us they are having a good time ….i have re-posted Herve's photo links here for easier review…. several …

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lord of the ring…

story and photograph by Eric Espinosa I met James a few months ago when starting the "Lords of the Ring" project, a photo essay on the boxing tradition in Cincinnati.  James was a young vibrant boxer coming from one of Cincinnati's tough neighborhoods…the type of neighborhoods that offer little chance for the present and even less of …

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Obamatime…

in my last post, i implied that perhaps not all was right with the world….yesterday afternoon at this exact  time i was filled with apprehension as we drove across the mountain range that separates Oaxaca city from Puerto Escondido on the Pacific coast of Mexico…twists and turns in the steep mountain road presented at least …

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