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…
I am committing to a new writing practice, a memoir/essay series that I will publish weekly on this blog for at least 52 weeks. I’m calling it “Among Other Things.” I see beauty, value and power in this creative practice that is worth exploring in a way I have not Read more…
UPDATE: See Among Other Things Part of me wants to write a memoir. For my sons. And my sins, if that’d help. That is, maybe also for me. In part, because I think we all have one in us. Probably more. And they are worth sharing. But where would the 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…