Aspiring Photographer – Take 1

Happy New Year Musings! My aspiring ‘start to better picture taking’ has now begun. A few years ago I was just aimlessly pointing a camera around, trying to get what I saw to show up with out taking into consideration technique or knowledge at all. And that is pretty much what I did again forContinue reading “Aspiring Photographer – Take 1”

The Anniversary of my First Love

The Velvet Rope, Janet Jackson’s sixth studio album was released in 1997. I fell hard and fast in love with music in 1995. When the realization that I’ve been in love with music for this long left me feeling all sorts of things. Shocked, awed, appreciative, and loved are the main things running through myContinue reading “The Anniversary of my First Love”

The Fool and the Hermit

A good friend of mine (Annie Pritchard) drew this picture of me on the first day that we met. We both volunteer at our local hospital, and I remember yapping a way – a mile a minute – about the first topic that came up that day. When our shift ended, she showed it toContinue reading “The Fool and the Hermit”