She later told me that she sells The Contributor newspaper, asking if I would like one. “I also write poems,” she told me with a laugh. “What are your poems about,” I asked with interest? She told me one of her poems was about coffee, another she wrote for the local Domino’s Pizza man and it is about pizza.
Read MoreThe simple life continues in Amish country
Author and Christian environmentalist Nancy Sleeth wrote in her book, Almost Amish: “To air dry clothes by choice is countercultural. And who, more than any other group in twenty-first-century America, is both countercultural and committed to air drying clothes? Read more below...
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Starwood Concert Venue - Death of 2007
What was is no more: These photos were taken at what used to be the largest outdoor amphitheater in Nashville, Tennessee. For more click below...
Read MoreThe hotel he never left
One of the many faces I recently saw at the defunct four story hotel we visited last week. This is Jeffery, his last job ended several years ago when this hotel closed down. Jeffery was over maintenance... he never left. Read more below.
Read MoreStage IV Liver Disease
Pictured: Jeffery and Rocky hugging each other prior to her being transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center to receive care for her ailing liver. Jeffery said to all of us, “Take care of her, I love her and she is all I have.” Read more below...
Read MoreI came to Nashville to be a musician, I rap
He was standing in the shadows of a large canopy at a homeless campsite located near downtown Nashville when I asked him, “Are you homeless?” His clothes were nice and neat and ball cap looked brand new. His shoes were even clean. He told me, “Yes, I live here. I was born in Forest City, Arkansas
Read MoreStreet Photography: Subway Noise
In this day and age, everything is bad for you. That includes the New York City Subway. No, not air pollution and not the folks rubbing up against you… Not even the man who decides to sit next to you while wearing his birthday suit.
Read MoreI came to Memphis to care for my mother
“Memphis is too violent for me to stay, I’m not used to that,” he said. “Not only is it violent, they are behind the times,” he said with a smile. As he talked he continued to smile and talk about how he loved to be moving, he loved activity. “In California I worked as a trainer at Golds Gym, I also worked at World Gym.”
Read MoreI was on the USS Kitty Hawk
I saw him walking down a highway on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee picking up cans and then throwing them into a wire shopping cart that he was slowly pushing. When I stopped to speak with him, I realized I was talking to someone who served our country in the US Navy...
Read MoreHe clearly remembers the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed
“People were f**ckin up Memphis and I didn't want to be in the middle of that. I just stayed in bed and didn’t go to school the day after King was killed. A teenager was even shot by Memphis Police.”
Read MoreU. S. Air Force Veteran
Meet United States Air Force Veteran Horace Renfro. Horace, who lives in a homeless shelter in Memphis, Tennessee, has trouble speaking. He was able to state, “I had an accident that left me unable to say what I am trying to say.”
Read MoreI own a TV station and a newspaper company
I met this woman who told me that everyone calls her “Sidewalk Momma” in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday (3/29/2015). She seemed as if she were in a very big hurry, but had trouble telling me why she could not talk for other than to suggest that she owns the Commercial Appeal newspaper...
Read MoreHaiti, but in New York City
I asked this homeless gentleman in New York where he was from... He smiled and said, "Haiti." I asked, "Would you prefer to be back in Haiti or would you rather be homeless in New York?" He chuckled... "New York."
Sometimes, what looks like a curse is actually a blessing. We are just looking at it the wrong way.
Rutgers University anthropologist and human behavior researcher Helen Fisher stated, "Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world."
Dreams can be much better than reality
Asleep in a subway station located in New York. Perhaps he was dreaming of a nice bed next to a warm fire as the temperature outside was 30-degrees. Malcolm Forbes, an American entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes Magazine, made a good point a number of years before his death in 1990, "When you cease to dream you cease to live."
America is a melting pot
Regardless of what your political belief's may be, Jimmy Carter made a very positive point when he stated, "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
I retired from the New York Stock Exchange... Now I hold a sign
"I use to work there [pointing at the New York Stock Exchange]..." I asked, "What did you do?" He told me he delivered mail in the building at the different offices for well over 20-years. He is now retired.
I met this man on Wall Street in New York earlier this month. He was holding a sign that said, "Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners." He smiled and told me that he was saved and soon after, he retired from the New York Stock Exchange.
Norman Rockwell
I often take photos that I later look back on and say to myself, "That is not a very good photo, but I like the person pictured." This was one of those photos. The picture itself is far from remarkable, but the man in front of the lens has a face that tells a story.
Read MoreI got shot!
"I got shot about 20-years ago, I have been paralyzed ever since," he told me. I asked what led to the shooting? At the same time that I asked that question an older man approached along with a person who appeared to be a home healthcare nurse...
Read More"I have heart problems"
"I always sit here, these folks have really helped me (pointing towards a local business in Manhattan)." "I have heart problems, but I'm getting better," he said with a smile.
"Fall seven times and stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb
A crazy little park
These men and women came running through Central Park in their underwear and some random guy came up to them and started pouring his water bottle out on the two guys in the group. The temperature outside was about 45-degrees when this nuttiness occurred. This craziness is why I love NY.
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” ― George Carlin