Intermountain Therapy Animals Rod here. Therapy animals, mostly dogs, are a special sort, unusually empathetic and attentive to humans, especially hospital patients. These dogs provide comfort and healing to the bedridden and other patients who are in need of some simple [...]

Want Something Similar? Return to Gallery Kingsley Books Background. We were approached by a Rhode Island based writer and blogger, Tom Fitzgerald, who was overflowing with ideas about selling his books and "wisdom cards," maintaining a blog, giving lectures around the country, even creating a [...]

Jeff Sugar is an MD, a psychiatrist, and he's an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. We think he's a very special person. While still in elementary school, he found his first intellectual and artistic hero: Leonardo da Vinci, who wrote of the need to see [...]

Julie Jensen’s award-winning works for theatre have been performed in venues across America and Europe, yet she firmly believes that writers must write about the places they know. She was born and raised in the small town of Beaver, Utah, which was settled by mormons in 1856.  [...]

Marshmallow Fluff: Marshmallow Fluff is Americana in a jar! It all started in 1920, in Lynn, Massachusetts, when two young men, H. Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower, formed a partnership to make Marshmallow Fluff, an exceptionally smooth and delicious marshmallow creme. Since then, Fluff and the Fluffernutter, [...]

Mike Dorrell is an author and poet. A Welshman, Mike spent much of his young life in Britain, and he says he learned his craft as a re-write man, novelizing radio mysteries for the BBC. "The Scrimshaw Skeleton," first in a trilogy of novels set in Wales, introduces [...]

Nick Fairfield Rod here. This site, long gone, alas, is a sentimental favorite. Nick is one of those rare individuals who, having no desire for fame or fortune, carves beautiful objects in his studio overlooking Ipswich Bay, in Annisquam, MA. Ostensibly, he creates his decoys for duck hunters, but any hunter [...]

Solitude. Rod here. I presented this concept for an online and print campaign to the Director of Advertising at Solitude Ski Resort, focussing on the people of Solitude and their roles. She liked the concept, but then, Solitude was purchased by Alterra, a big multi-national ski resort corporation, [...]

(Hover over the image...) Strawberries Rod here. This photo was originated on a cheap webcam, not much to work with. Given the poor condition of the original file, this project was a particularly challenging restoration. The solution was a "painterly" approach to editing. [...]

Swell Photographs Rod here. I have been taking pictures for decades, and in my opinion, there are few places on earth as photogenic as the geological paradise known as Utah. Swell Photographs is a retrospective of my landscape photography since I moved SPI to Utah from Boston, in 2007. Swell Photographs, so [...]