What a joy to be in Prague last month. I loved seeing friends, sights and the sounds of my second home. And the food! Thank you for the warm hugs and kind welcome back. I needed that more than I can put in words.

The snow came and looks like it’s going to stay for awhile. I went out one morning and made these with my Rolleiflex and some Kodak film.

Lauren and I had always wanted to visit Japan. We booked a trip for May 2020, but the pandemic canceled it. At last, we made it there last October and it was everything we hoped for. Over three weeks, we moved between Tokyo and Kyoto and smaller places like Kiso and Matsumoto. The attention to […]

I built a little web app to scratch a personal itch. An easy way to format photos the way I prefer them onInstagram. Drop in photos, get them back with a clean white border inside a square.Plus a toggle to add a film rebate look. Your photos never leave your browser. Nothing is uploaded or […]

Values matter. During my time as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, I saw what shared values look like in action and what happens when leadership fails to honor them. When President Biden took office, just a handful of NATO allies had met their 2% GDP defense spending pledge. By the end of his administration, […]