Skip to content . LEIF SKOOGFORS INTERVIEW: . TW: When did you first realize your vocation would be to become a photojournalist? Who or what influences in your life early on led you down this path? LS: The weekly arrival of LIFE magazine, in those days a respected and worldly periodical showed me the world. I … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . Civil War? . I decided to write about a touchy topic this time, the American “Civil War.”. Why do I put that in quotation marks? Because there never was a civil war within the United States. A civil war is, by definition, a war between different factions within … Read more
. Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . Wuhan Virus . I usually like to be proved right in my predictions, but this time is an exception. I wrote most of my book COSMIC DANCE in 2018 and published it in March of 2019. In it (page 90), I predicted a plague caused by GMO … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . MEDITATIONS ON PANDEMICS . I was reading an article last night in THE WEEK, my trusted weekly news magazine, about the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. No one is alive today who remembers that pandemic, but the historical records exist, and the parallels to today are strong. Like … Read more
. Vacancies I’ve never met a Bangkok this quiet – devoid of the hustle and bustle, the monotonous hum of vehicles, the faint smell of smog lingering in the air. I’ve never met a Bangkok where motorbike taxi drivers linger in their stations, idling, waiting in apprehensiveness for a customer; where roadside street stores don’t … Read more