Portraits

I have been very blessed in this lifetime with good health, curiosity, 46 years of recovery, and lots of energy.  I have also been a nurse for 43 years.  But I am most grateful to the many people who have loved me and supported my photography over these decades...Dad and Uncle Lawrence gave me my first 35mm cameras in 1970.  Richard Lundgren at LEHS,  my first photography and darkroom teacher.  My high school principal Al Tagney gave me a serious upgrade of equipment in 1974.  Doc Wentzell taught me about "paying it forward" in 1978 and trusted me with a large sum of money (this is a secret!) for another serious upgrade when I got sober.   Bob Keaney, my first editor from the Lynn Sunday Post.  My childhood friend and photographer Jim Wilson from The Boston Globe.   Cheri and Danny Joyce who trusted me to do my first wedding 51 years ago!  Yikes!  (I want a do over!)  Debbie Feinman who pried me away from film and into this century 20 years ago.  And my biggest fans...my amazing kid Milo,  my "twin" sister Cindy,  Mary Winston McCarriston,  Skylar,  Don Montemorra,  Laura Plunkett,  Helen and Suzanne Hynes,  Lee and Susan Kane,  Theresa Thomason,  Meghan Leighton,  Helen Pace Cogan,  Dick Tobin,  Jane Walton Rowe RN,  the best nursing boss of all time Dr Fred Krell, Frank Pagnotta, my music teacher who saved my life in high school, Clem Schoenebeck, Rage Hezekiah,  Rita Heron.