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The Shoot Out
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one!”” I realize C.S. Lewis was not actually thinking of photographers when he defined friendship in The Four Loves, but he did hit the nail on the head. Over the past several months, I’ve been…
Making Memories: Happy Places
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness. And happy memories. And happy pictures. And – especially – happy places. You see, I have a lot of happy places. There’s the room in the mountains of Southern Virginia where I lived in for four months while recovering from pneumonia. There’s the rock on the shores…
Rome in 48 Hours
All of life is an adventure. There are Everyday Adventures and Grand Adventures and Troublesome Adventures. If life as I know it is an Everyday Adventure and if i cant help but experience my fair share of Troublesome Adventures, I’ll take every opportunity to experience a Grand Adventure. Ergo, Rome in 48 hours. Win: Arriving in…
I went to Tucson
I am a stereotype in the making and I’m okay with it. I escaped the rain and gray of British Columbia by going to Arizona in January and I am so ridiculously grateful for the privilege. With several of my college chums in Arizona and both siblings in Tucson, I think I need to…
My Thankful Vacation
I am thankful for airplanes. Airplanes that criss-cross the continent and allow all the appendages of my family to convene in on semi-central location. We flew from Atlanta, from North Carolina, and from British Columbia to descend upon Arizona — that’s only about twenty-six hours of flying among the five travelers (round trip) instead of…
The Extended Family. Almost All of Us.
My family is the coolest family in the whole wide world. Seriously. Hands down. No doubt. We are so cool we even have a facebook group for the cousins (does that make us cool? Or does it make us dorks? Dunno.). But, see, with a heritage like we have, there’s really no way we can…