I go through the morning paper front-to-back. Granted, so much of it is now online that it takes no more than half an hour to go through the paper version, but still. I don’t read every article, but I scan all the headlines and read…

Last Monday, I wrote about how the mere act of taking photographs is a writer’s tool. Today is all about the snappies. Let’s do the obvious first: photographs capture moments in time. Memories, right there on a piece of paper. If you want to relive…

Not photographS–that’s for another day. Today, I’m talking about the act of, the habit of (not to say “the obsession with”) taking snappies. With digital cameras, you aren’t edged into caution by the costs of film and developing; you can snap anything that takes your…