OCCUPATION: writer & taphophile PREOCCUPATION: dead relatives AVOCATION: photographing gravestones ASPRIRATION: a journey on foot to Woburn, Massachusetts, starting in South Dakota [as far west as my direct-line Richardsons settled] literally re-tracing the footsteps of my ancestors, through Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, stopping at every family cemetery along the way, winding up at Woburn Burial Grounds happy as the proverbial New England clam.

OCCUPATION: writer & taphophile PREOCCUPATION: dead relatives AVOCATION: photographing gravestones ASPRIRATION: a journey on foot to Woburn, Massachusetts, starting in South Dakota [as far west as my direct-line Richardsons settled] literally re-tracing the footsteps of my ancestors, through Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, stopping at every family cemetery along the way, winding up at Woburn Burial Grounds happy as the proverbial New England clam.