ILEANA JOHNSON

How many things and people do we take for granted in life? And once they are gone, we miss them dearly and wish that we could go back in tim...

On any given day, there is a huge three-lane parking lot of cars moving at the speed of snail in both directions of I-95, while the two-lane...

I came across one episode of a popular series, Northern Exposure, that ran in the 1990-1995. Highly popular then, it received many accolades...

No matter how bad the economic and political times are, view the world as an explorer. You are standing each day before a vast universe, and...

As I watched millions of well-fed, educated Americans dancing in the streets, cheering, and gloating over their hard-cheated pyrrhic preside...

We run through life… we don’t know in which direction… We work hard to buy a home, a car, we struggle, we stress out, And we ...

Bogart in 2014 After a fitful night of sleep and crying, I woke up this morning imagining that I heard Bogart’s meow from his room. Th...

Handsome Bogart, 18-years old Photo: Ileana Johnson 2017 I used to think that it was rather morbid that my in-laws had purchased thei...

  Photo: Ileana Johnson 2016 Entering the nursing home, I never know what human drama peppered with dark comedy emerges. It is a life ...

My daughter and I go to the nursing home so often that the head nurse rolls her eyes when she sees us, we are there almost every day. My h...

I took up photography because I wanted to capture those moments of beauty, of tranquility, of temporary happiness. It was perhaps because ...

I took the thin layer of leftover soap and tried to stick it to a new bar I had unwrapped. I never stopped to think why I’ve always done...