Tag Archives: Travel

24 Minutes Plus Six For Commercials

Posted on March 27, 2013 by stephenarcher

I don’t won­der so much now how I grew up think­ing that life was going to be for me as it was for Steve McGar­ret (played by Jack Lord, actu­ally born John Joseph Patrick Ryan – that’s three cool names) on Hawaii … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Untitled 88

Posted on March 5, 2013 by stephenarcher

Just the photo. After my last post, I think it best to leave the words out…I say this even though I know that it will be hard for you not to go back and read it. It’s bad. Just own­ing that. But you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Last House

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stephenarcher

I took all the pic­tures in Guatemala with a small Leica dig­i­tal cam­era at my waist. I assumed the cam­era saw about what I was see­ing and fired hun­dreds of frames. Any street phở­tog­ra­pher uses this tech­nique. Hav­ing a small … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Mistakes

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stephenarcher

We had been in Guatemala a few days, walked the mar­ket a few times, set up the OR’s and been in the clin­ics; we were work­ing hard by this time. The OR was full of cases. Three oper­at­ing tables – they are … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Goes Away

Posted on July 1, 2012 by stephenarcher

It’s mov­ing away. I t i s . The time I thought I had, I had that time, but I don’t think of it that way when I want more… time, I mean. The time I have “used” is not a part … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I Saw This (for Phil)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by stephenarcher

He’s 5, Chuck Taylor’s on his feet, before they were hip, when they were still just white shoes on a white boy, walk­ing through the hood. He is kick­ing the can when that was still the name for ‘tag’. He … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Oregon via Chicago

Posted on April 7, 2012 by stephenarcher

I went to Chicago and walked and made some pic­tures and let myself do noth­ing too impor­tant for a lit­tle while. I went to the Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Phở­tog­ra­phy at Colum­bia Col­lege to see an exhibit called “Lim­its of Phở­tog­ra­phy”. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Jesse

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stephenarcher

Jesse was hav­ing din­ner and not pay­ing much atten­tion to the World Series game seven. That made him inter­est­ing. We were sit­ting at the bar – every table was packed for the game. I had been tak­ing pic­tures of a closed and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lisha

Posted on October 27, 2011 by stephenarcher

I am in Burlingame, CA. I would nor­mally want to just say San Fran­cisco, but it isn’t. I am in Burlingame for four days. I went for a walk along the bay. I was tak­ing pic­tures of an unusual man … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Rain.

Posted on October 16, 2011 by stephenarcher

I lay in the rain to let the drops hit me like down­beats to the next breath, like lit­tle knocks on the apart­ment door when I lived alone on a Sun­day after­noon and the quiet was every­where. The clouds, mov­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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