Tag: audio slideshow

  • Sacred Rivers

        The Yadkin River partners — Christine Rucker, Phoebe Zerwick and I — are at work on a new project, one we’re calling, for now, “Sacred Rivers.” Over the coming months we’ll be visiting with communities of faith and others for whom rivers provide context, setting and meaning for ritual. In August, we spent…

  • You Should Be Dancing

    This little slideshow is like a happy pill. Whenever I’m feeling hopeless or out of sorts — and that’s too often than I want to admit, in these difficult times — I watch this. My friend and Journal colleague Jennifer Rotenizer took these marvelous photographs of the Mwangaza Children’s Choir of Uganda when they performed…

  • Story of My Life

    I love working with photographer Christine Rucker for lots of reasons. First, she has a way of putting people at ease with her gentle, unassuming style and easy laugh. They get it right away that she sees them. I believe she possesses extra senses that ordinary people like me just don’t have. Christine also gives me…

  • Remember This Name

    Once in a while I get lucky. Not too long ago, my old colleague Chris English called and asked me for help. He’s the photo editor for university publications at UNC Greensboro, and he’d just come back from a photo shoot with a UNCG alum in Nashville, where he’d taken oodles of photographs, shot video…

  • Alzheimer’s Disease Changes a Beloved Husband

    Living with Alzheimer’s disease has changed everything for George Griswold, but nothing more than his marriage to his wife, Nan. Laura Giovanelli wrote a compelling portrait of the Griswolds in the Sunday, Aug. 16 edition of the Winston-Salem Journal. See photographs and hear them talk about their marriage.