The span of my outstretched arms was wider than my room at the White House Hotel. Already, you can see that “room” and “hotel” are generous descriptors. It was a flophouse on the notorious Bowery in NYC at a time when few of those havens remained. A four-story red-brick building Read more…
I ran over an already dead snake with my pickup truck today. Unavoidably. It was on a rural two-lane highway. I’d come around a gentle bend and didn’t see it reaching into the lane from the right edge until it was too late. When it happened, I shuddered. It was Read more…
I clashed with my editor when I was a high school sports writer at a suburban newspaper chain in St. Louis. Dennis was a peaceable man in his 50s who seemed to have resigned himself to this life of high school athletes and coaches and sports seasons. To deadlines and Read more…
Davis, we’ll call him, was an editor at National Geographic magazine for decades. His advice to me in the early aughts, and no doubt to countless young adults throughout the years, photographers and otherwise, was to broaden my diet. Don’t study just photojournalism to learn photojournalism. Read poetry. Listen to Read more…
It’s been at least five years since I’ve fly fished. My tween-aged son is drawing me back into it by way of his emerging spinner rod fishing obsession. Now I cast, standing alone in the Arkansas River while he is at school. My first time in a river, fly rod Read more…
I don’t have the energy for this blog post. But my mind keeps trying to write it, so here we go … The other day, I came across a comment from months ago from an unsubscriber who wanted me to know why she was quitting the Humanitou newsletter. She wrote, Read more…
I have a history of celebrating milestone birthdays solo. By choice. I don’t have a mental catalog of when, where or with whom I have spent every birthday. But I do remember these: 21 … In Indianapolis. Alone. 25 … In Singapore. Alone. 30 … In Eufaula, Alabama. Alone. And Read more…
Overview: In this episode (ep 136), Adam Williams weaves stories of his two young sons throwing head locks and left hooks, and finding confidence amid their tears and rage, with his own challenges as a boy raised to never fight.(Released on podcast on Feb. 11, 2023) Also on Apple, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, YouTube, Google and other players. EP Read more…