A Taste of Rome, The Eternal City
The last place we visited on our 30-day tour of Europe last year was Rome, the Eternal City. We only …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie
I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …
Letters From Beyond the Grave on Memorial Day
While neither of these poems have anything in particular to do with remembering those who have given their lives to …
A Lovely Sip of Sorrento, Italy
With summer around the corner I’ve been looking at all the photos I never shared from last year when I …
Astonished, Opened at Last
Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …
Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence
I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …
The Fabulous Island of Capri on the Amalfi Coast
We spent several days on the fabled Island of Capri during our 30-day whirlwind trip to Europe last summer. It …
What Makes this Photo So Fascinating?
What makes a photograph great? What draws us to look again and again? What is it we see that fascinates …
The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography
In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …
Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
