Today was supposed to be the last meeting of the Art of The Blog class I’m teaching at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y., but we are extending the class a bit. The Hubbard Hall Writer’s Workshop that I taught went on for two years, it was a great experience for me. This one can’t go that long, but the group is off to a great start. Every Saturday morning, it has become a ritual for me to photograph the connection between Lisa Dingle, one of the students, and Red, who is the workshop dog. The light finds these two and shines on their connection.

Lisa is a gifted writer, her blog is already come to life and is capturing wonderful slices of the human experience. In the coming weeks, I’ll post some of the blogs of the other students in the group, they are really coming along well. I believe blogs are giving voice go a whole new generation of writers who are bypassing the constipated and restricted old system of commercial publishing. Their work is increasingly vibrant and different and exciting. Lisa drives four hours each way to the class from Massachusetts and she has become a friend, she is focused and determined and open, she will accomplish what she sets out to do.

I learned long ago that these connections between people and my animals have meaning, I am not ever really sure what it is.