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I’ve spent a l-o-n-g life exploring my world and philosophizing about it. Over the years I worked as a newspaper delivery boy, movie usher, gas station attendant, bakery truck driver, construction worker, electronics technician, radar operator, technical writer, corporate executive, travel author, freelance photographer, book editor, publisher, tarot-card reader, lecturer, bookseller, performance poet, and more. Whee!
I served in the US Navy during the Korean War. I lived and traveled abroad for a year on two separate occasions, throughout Europe and Mexico. And I have visited Central America, North Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand – along with 49 of the US states excepting Alaska.
All my writings, photographs, and art explore the nature of human existence through the lens of my own personal experience. As a photographer my motto is, “I’ve you in eye-view,” and as author/editor I like to say,
“Ed’d edited it.”
My photography is published in hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers; I am a two-time prizewinner in the Nikon International Photo Contest.
My published books include various travel guides (such as Hitch-Hiking in Europe, Vagabonding in Europe & No. Africa, and Vagabonding in the USA); two books of photography (Two Births and Mission Creek San Francisco), one other book of poetry (Sacred Southwest Suite), and a popular tarot deck (the William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination). I also host two websites: and – works in progress that will expand as time and resources allow.
I take immense pride in my three wonderful daughters – Jan McCarthy, Sierra Buryn, and Casimira Kneebone – and am so grateful to their moms – Joanne Hughes, Stephanie Mines, and Mary K. Greer. I consider my various works to be worthwhile contributions to human culture, but I regard fatherhood as my most important creative achievement. I now have four amazing grandkids too – Simone & Sophia, and Elliot & Clara. So much love and life to enjoy and to wonder at.
After 28 years living in San Francisco, I have now lived for the past 30 years in the small northern California town of Nevada City, at the edge of a former gold mine. At 85 years old, I still work every day as an independent bookseller on the internet. I consider all my associations with books – as author, editor, illustrator, photographer, designer, agent, publisher, bookseller, and reader – to be sacred employment because books and literature further the cultural and spiritual development of humanity in so many ways.
I R Books. U R my Loves. We R all Gods.