• On Top

    Two submissions for the weekly photo challenge On Top. First up is a photo I call “Top Down.” I took this inside the lighthouse at Hunting Island State Park. I was on the top level looking down at the spiral staircase I just finished climbing.     The next photo I took in my back…


  • The “Rich100Award” Presentation

    Before I announce the winner of “The Inaugural Rich100Award” allow me a moment to say this. If I had an orchestra of French horns, violins, and a timpani, I would conduct them in a rousing rendition of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.” Since I don’t, I’m going to cheat and use this rousing rendition from youtube to…


  • On The Edge

    This is a few weeks late, I know, but here is my photo interpretation of “Threshold.” I call it “On The Edge.” I’m really lousy at devising really cool titles. This moment was captured at Hunting Island State Park, near Beaufort, South Carolina.


  • And The “Rich100Award” Goes To…

    Tension thickens the air like a South Florida summer day. Quiet murmuring all around. A mass of humanity gathered in the city square eagerly awaits the announcement – expected at any time now. Who will it be? Someone famous? An artist; a writer; a poet? Someone local or someone from the other side of the world?…


  • US Navy – Old and New

    I retired from the US Navy over twenty years ago. At the time, it seemed like the best thing for me to do in my life. Since then, I’ve often wished that I hadn’t retired. In fact, these days I often find myself wishing that I was still serving. I really miss it. By no…


  • Java Fueled Journaling – 4

    04/16/14, 03:08:00 AM Columbia, South Carolina, USA, North America, Earth, The Milky Way, The Solar System Dear Java Fueled Journal, Guess what? Yep, you oh so smart dude, you! You now have a new home in this crazy world wide weboblogosphere. I decided – on my own mind you – that you no longer need…