Category Archives: Autobiography

At the Burning Coal Vein

If I had to pick one place in all of the North Dakota grasslands and badlands as my favorite, it would probably be the Burning Coal Vein area. Not only does it have spectacular views of eroded slopes and grassy hills studded with junipers and ponderosa pines, but it has provided a wealth of memories of time spent here with family [...]

Self-portrait with Grass

I was looking for an old classroom photo yesterday and came across this self-portrait I took around 1975. That was when I had a Minolta film camera and had taken some photography workshops at Bemidi State College in Minnesota. In this instance, I think I sandwiched two film negatives to get the grass with my [...]

Early Drawings

My aunt surprised me with a gift of several of my early drawings when she was here this summer. They seem vaguely familiar to me now that I see them, but I had pretty much forgotten all about them. It’s amazing to me that she had them all these years, and that she would think [...]