Car Show Girl
The Chicago Auto Show is coming up again soon and that means there’s a chance I’ll see her again. Wait, who? The girl from the car show! More on her later. Silly, I know. The statistics for...
View ArticleChildren of an Idle Brain
It’s sad that in the past five years of blogging, despite my roller coaster love life, I’ve only posted once on Valentine’s Day. In 2009, I wrote about saving your old emails and how it paid off in a...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Mass Cure
What is this? Two blog posts on Valentine’s Day? Yes, I’m trying to make up for five years of not posting anything V-Day related, or as my sister Anne calls it, Single’s Awareness Day. So for all of...
View ArticleSupplies!
I don’t squeeze my toothpaste tube up from the bottom the way everyone else does because I like there to be some surprises in my life. Like, “Hey, there’s a whole ‘nother glob of extra toothpaste over...
View ArticleMy Version of Inception
So, after typing my last post which was about the recent increase in surprises in my life, and after proofing and publishing it, SURPRISE!, only half of the post was published. Everything I added...
View ArticlePhotography Workflow
This may initially look complicated but this is the photography workflow that I currently use including the route from initial captured image, through ingestion and processing, distribution and...
View ArticleYou are now pregnant with oil
Listening to Moulin Rouge’s final scene on YouTube while editing pregnancy test photos is a great multitasking combination. Earlier during the photo shoot, we didn’t have any urine to drop into the...
View ArticleGlimpse
Don’t you just hate it when every time you go out to eat near the building where your ex works, you think you are going to see her, but you never do? The only thing you can do every time you enter the...
View ArticleDust Bunnies Road Trip
As it was dusk, there were lots of fireflies visible that the little girl dust bunny tried to catch in her dusty paws.
View ArticleSexahol
High school was a strange time of pre-internet sexlessness and adults warning me endlessly in varying filmstrips and interrupted lesson plans of the dangers of “Peer Pressure”. Peer Pressure (PP), I...
View ArticleARC
Automatic Relationship Compensation (ARC). I’ve discovered that I suffer from ARC after I bought my first car. The concept is this: the more my romantic life suffers, the more money I spend on my...
View ArticleAmazing Women
LOOKING NOT FINDING Looking online for someone to date is like shopping for a car. Too old, too young, wrong color, wrong features, looks like high-maintenance hotness, looks perfect but the seller...
View ArticleStill Waters
Today is my birthday. One of the traditions my family has on birthdays is to give everyone at the table a small present. I think because my parents were raising three kids, it was a way of reducing...
View ArticleTaffy Apple Day
Today I photographed Taffy Apple Day in the cafeteria at work. I have no deep thoughts about this. It was simply a quick little shoot. Nothing to report here. On the other side of the cafeteria,...
View ArticleThe Missing Ingredient
There are many things in this world that are almost perfect. Pringles, for example, would be perfect if they satiated you. Unfortunately, you crave more the more you eat which, lucky for Pringles,...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Jon Hillenbrand
My mom forwarded this story to me that I wrote when I was 8 years old… THE ADVENTURES OF JON HILLENBRAND One day I climbed up my tree and saw a race track. I was there yesterday. I was looking at...
View ArticleThe Stone
Among the many rain-like drops falling from Eve as she emerged from the pool, a single drop, a little larger than the others, caught Adam’s eye. He studied it in the instant that it existed, a life in...
View ArticleDreamscape
Sometimes at night I think to myself in the way that many can think to themselves when they are separated from the noise of the day. I often remember dreams or the unreality of dreams and sometimes my...
View ArticleCold smoke
This past January when the weather was extremely cold, I was asked to photograph a new sign on the outside of a cancer treatment building for advertising purposes. I decided to wait until the sun was...
View ArticleUnshackled From Gravity
Yesterday morning as I was walking to my car before work, I saw two Song Sparrows sitting in the middle of the street very close to each other looking at me. I thought they might be mates but as I got...
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