For AARP Bulletin: NJ Taxes and the case of Corinne Bell
Below are photos I recently made for an AARP Bulletin story about how New Jersey’s high property taxes effect seniors on fixed incomes. Corinne Bell, partially obscured by artificial flowers on her kitchen table, has lived in the home she and her husband built for 52 years. The widow now lives with three cats, Tiny, Cece, [...]
10am Update: Inclusion. …sorta.
CAPTION: Tri-legged “capture the pumpkin” teammates Nick Schoch, middle , 13, and Ben Stevick, 15, right, mingle with other classmate who wound up in “jail.” Ben, who has Downs Syndrome is able to play PE games and attend class with his peers because he has been included into normal 8th grade classroom settings at St. [...]
10am Update: Fashion Battle
Reigning Fashion Battle Champs, Laurel High School, hand over the crown during the 2nd annual contest held at the University of Maryland College Park’s Tawes Theatre Saturday January 15, 2005. These photos are from way back when… 2005. This was one of my first assignments as a STAFFER for The Patuxent Publishing Co. As always, [...]
Teach(ing) For America
Barely illuminated by the overhead projector, David Donaldson explains the creative writing assignment to his second 9th grade English class of the day. He is in his second year as a
Fallen Heroes Day
Baltimore city police detective Tom Bender covers Christina Lippy and her daughter Madison from the rain. Christina Lippy’s husband, Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy, of the Maryland State Police Aviation Command, was killed in a
His New Heart, Part 3.
Noah Thyberg, 11, standing next to head referee Brad Hewlick, from Edgewater, was the guest coin tosser for the River Hill/Atholton 3A regional championship game in Clarksville Friday November, 20 2009.
His New Heart, Part 1.
The vertical scar on Noah Thyberg’s chest is from the heart transplant surgery he received September 3rd. The scar is no problem for the eleven-year-old; it’s the puffiness of his face that makes him self conscious. “I don’t look like me.” His rounder features are a side effect of Prednisone, a prescribed steroid he must [...]