Impressions from the Road

The Postcard Printing Press in studio, preparing for the UK trip Notes from a Curious Traveler Bainbridge Island — April 15, 2025 In the...

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That’s a Wrap: Closing the Postcard Press Travel Project

Liverpool, Wales, Northumbria, and the Lake District. A postcard printing press I hardly used. A planned sketchbook that stalled; an...

Jun 205 min read

The Postcard Is not The point, Part 2

This project—traveling with a tiny printing press, a sketchbook, and a set of postcards—was never about keeping up. Well, not exactly....

Jun 95 min read

The Postcard Is Not the Point, Part 1

Sketchbook Moments, Grotesques, and What Led Me Upstairs Crows like cemeteries. Landican Cemetery was no exception. The first one...

Jun 14 min read

ABOUT ME

In 1985, my thesis took me from the tidy academic world of MIT to the muddy valley of Armero, Colombia. This contrast between academy and mud would set the pattern for my future. For the next 20 years, I worked as a project specialist, policy advisor and manager in Latin America and the Caribbean. Finding solutions to often messy challenges.Ten years ago, I stepped away from this work (...)