It’s not often I find someone both helpful and talented and willing to work with me. But I did today. Jen Fariello at jenfariello.com.
Not only was she efficient, friendly and good at what she does, she was willing to work with me on this shoot - and climb around in the van, brave my dog Koko, and all the stuff that makes a good photographer good. I hate getting in front of a camera. It reminds me I need to be losing weight, and makes me feel like I’m …

Photo above: YMCA Coach Dan Blankenship talks to his runners shortly before their last training run before the Monument Ave. 10K in Richmond on March 27.
I just posted my first blog at Change.org about a Richmond, VA coach who coached 19 people to their first 10K this winter. The men and women will be racing Saturday, March 27th at the Monument Ave 10K here in Richmond. The intro to the story begins:
More than 37,000 runners will compete in Saturday’s Monument Avenue 10k in Richmond, Virginia. For at least 19 …

I still have to sign the contracts, get my marching orders and the usual stuff you do when you get a new job, but I’ve just become a hired blogger. It looks like I’ll be writing once or twice a week for Change.org’s website on homelessness. I’m joining a great staff, most of whom, I noticed - are from the west coast and upper east coast. There’s one other writer from Northern Virginia (Arlington), but I didn’t see any writers who hail from the south. Whew! All the more topics …

Christopher Scott Emmett was convicted in October 2001 of the April 27, 2001, capital murder and robbery of his co-worker, John Langley, in Danville, Virginia. On November 2, 2001, Emmett was sentenced to death. On May 30, 2007 I received word that I was one of the media selected to view Emmett’s execution on June 13. How does one prepare to view and cope with an execution? This is my journal of that journey. My thoughts about this are not right or wrong, they’re simply mine.
That paragraph was how I …