I am a journalist, artist and photographer who is interested in everything. Do I lack focus? Maybe! I’m easily distracted, fascinated and obsessed, so just about anything may appear on this blog. 
I’m also a sometime columnist in the suburban section of The Kansas City Star and a freelance writer and photographer for other publications.
Some of my interests and topics I’ve written about for newspapers:
- Natural History
- Paleontology (I love to go to digs.)
- History (I was a graduate student in American History, specializing in western American studies.)
- Photography (I studied for a few years.)
- Economics and politics. (I was an editor at a commodity news service and was a graduate student in public administration.)
- Biology, including theories of evolution, population biology, the environment, birds, botany and entomology (I did graduate studies in biology, mostly botany.)
- Art and artists (I’m a painter.)
- Books and writers (Journalism and English degrees. Someday I’ll finish one of those thousand novels I’ve started writing. I’ve been in a book club for 20 years.)
- Music and composers (Studied piano. Never better than mediocre. I still love it.)
- Health and medicine. (I was an editor and writer in the public relations department at a large teaching hospital and medical school.)
Most of the photographs on my blog are my own, although I have swiped a few off the web — such as the portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman. (I’ve got some miles on my tires, but I’m not that old.)
I feature some of my photographs and art in greeting cards at Greeting Card Universe and Zazzle.
“I never submitted the whole system to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.
“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure.” Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823.
I feature some of my photographs and art in greeting cards at Greeting Card Universe and Zazzle.
17 Comments
April 20, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I love your website and it’s given me ideas aplenty. I do remember Kathy Dawson and the trip you two made to Berkeley back in the day. Your photos should be available as screen savers. Have you thought of that?
Blogger-to-be,
Jan
July 25, 2008 at 6:38 pm
August 23, 2008 at 5:32 pm
It’s funny, our About pages share a lot of the same “abouts”…lol. Particularly this quote: “I am a journalist, artist and photographer who is interested in everything. Do I lack focus? Maybe! I’m easily distracted, fascinated and obsessed, so just about anything may appear on this blog. ”
By the way, some of your photography that I’ve seen so far is great.
My About page: http://drcorner.wordpress.com/about/
September 7, 2008 at 8:45 am
Nice to see you in WP
happy blogging
best regards
aminhers
September 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Kansas-what an interesting place? I’m currently in Kansas:(
I am enjoying your blog though.
September 25, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Carolina, where are you in Kansas? Sorry about the
I’m in Kansas City. It’s lovely here…..I’ve been photographing a hummingbird in my flowers.
September 29, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I just visited your blog for the first time. Very impressive!!!!
Can’t wait to see some shots from your excavations with Dr. Martin.
October 10, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi! I just discovered your blog as I was looking for information on hummingbird migrations. Most of my hummers left weeks ago and I hadn’t seen any signs of the one lone hummer (that had stayed long past the others) for about ten days. This morning about 7:30 am I spotted a hummer feeding on my Lady In Red salvias. I live in Maryland between Baltimore and Washington D.C. I’m trying to find out if there is any hope that this hummer will make it south before the weather gets too cold.
I really like your blog and plan to revisit soon to read some of your other postings. Keep up the good work.
October 16, 2008 at 7:55 am
Catherine: Your CV is impressive! Just wondering, I know you didn’t mention, how much of a Jane Austen fan you or those in your reading group are? I’ve just posted a poll for those who’re familiar with JA’s heroines.
December 10, 2008 at 11:47 am
I am so glad we connected through Anna….. an amazing woman doing an amazing study in AZ!
Thanks for looking at my site (spread the word).
It appears you and I have traded adding each other to our blogrolls….good places to be!
All my best-
Sam
December 21, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hi Catherine, Merry Christmas from Europe! I just came across your blog and found the Stones entry—- would you be willing to sell the signed pic? I read you keep it in your drawer…I am a huge fan and would love to put it on my wall —
all my best,
Marc
January 14, 2009 at 12:59 am
Hi Catherine,
I came across your blog by accident while snooping around for Robert Plant info. I saw him twice with Alison Krauss this summer. First in Toronto whilst visiting friend I treated all of us to tickets [better than a lame hostess gift, n'est pas?]and then I got on the internet immediately after the concert and saw that they were launching another tour. I went by myself to Seattle and sat in the front row!! Actually, I stood against the stage, with my arms crossed. I was in heaven!
My mother never let me go to see Led Zeppelin when they came through. She was convinced I would come home a drug addict or pregnant. Or both!
All this to say I found your blog looking for Robert Plant info and I found a really interesting blog.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers!
Carina
Thanks for your comment, Carina. Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin are my absolute favorites, and seeing them was heaven for me, too! Robert Plant and Led Zep appeal to a wide range of people. Last night, I went to a college basketball game (the University of Kansas Jayhawks — national champs! — against arch rival K-State), and the KU band played Black Dog and Kashmir! I thought I captured it on videotape, but my memory was full. KU won! Any team whose band plays Black Dog and Kashmir has to win. Plant and Krauss performed Black Dog this summer when I saw them. So fun to hear so many different versions!
June 15, 2009 at 7:46 am
I came across your blog while I was deciding on name for my website. (catherinesherman.com was already taken).
I’m a bit of a nosey one when it comes to looking at what Catherine Sherman’s around the world may be doing, and wondering what the similarities are.
And now I find myself regularly checking in with you.
September 3, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Hey, I re-read your about page..cool:) I once had a medical blog and had high marks on Google professional boards for my reviews of medical studies. That is neat:)
October 18, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I love your blog and all the photos you have
you seem like a very well – rounded and very well read person!!! keep it up 
check out my blog if you want:
http://www.ilbu.wordpress.com
I’m new to it and have only written 3 entires so far.
Tasha
October 21, 2009 at 2:49 am
Glad to visit your blog, I’ve found a new experience, I want to learn from you, by sharing experiences, I am a black man from Papua, an island in the Pacific Ocean sea, some people say that our island is an island paradise, because here there is a bird of gold, which according to some people’s birds of paradise
Greetings from the island paradise
October 29, 2009 at 8:33 am
CS,
Having varied interests certainly is a plus, not a minus. The greater the depth of your experiences, the more likely it will lead to firing synapses in the gray matter when confronted with a similar situation that you’ve seen, read about, or experienced in the past. Even when you get as old as my human (He’s 10 days older than dirt) you learn things. Eg. He’s working as a volunteer with an archaeological center. Did you know that the sea level has been 4′ higher and 2′ lower in the last 2000 years. Interesting isn’t it.