I began this blog when John Olmsted and I traveled to Cairo two years ago to check out, photograph and video the Arab Spring. John did the organizing, contact work and paid the bills (thanks, Johnny!) and I was in charge of the visuals. I still have many photos from that trip that have never seen the light of anything but my computer monitor, but, meanwhile, I have decided to use wordpress to collect and present various writings, reminiscences and so forth on various topics of interest to me and hopefully at least one other person, from time to time. So here goes.