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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

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If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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I Never Was Good at the Processes of Writing


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I really need to find the motivation to finish my novel draft and then start outlining my Peace Corps book. I just can’t and I keep coming up with excuses for “better” things to do. Somebody please help. For example, last month I wanted to write 30,000 words to finish my novel. I started and […]

December 5, 2013

Zoe’s Grant


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Primary School Classroom Construction Hey, does anyone remember a couple of years ago when I asked you for money? It wasn’t really for me, but I was still asking and it made me happy. Well, I’m asking again and it will make me happy once more if you’re able to give. [pe2-image src=”http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vC5xM7Py6Ok/Up8w-Sq0p4I/AAAAAAAASZ0/MDW-Y5wTaBI/s144-c-o/IMG00302-20130926-0935.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/111197070419838127380/20131204#5953531079128557442″ caption=”” […]

December 4, 2013

Birthday Pints


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I try not to brag about things because it’s unbecoming. However, sometimes I really need to climb atop a tall building and shout for all to hear, “I HAVE SOMETIME AWESOME THAT YOU NEED TO HEAR ABOUT!” This time around, I want to shout about how great my girlfriend, Ellie, is. She was unable to […]

December 2, 2013

Thanksgiving 2013


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Around this time of year, I swoon over the idea of Thanksgiving. Give me the opportunity, and I’ll tell you why I truly think it’s the greatest holiday (there’s no stress of gifts and the sole purpose of the holiday is to eat and be happy with what you have). I yearn for the food–the […]

December 1, 2013

Squandered Potential


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I had a bit of a quarter life crisis last night. I stumbled around the online profiles of people who I knew in high school but I have since lost track of them. I assumed they got to the same place everyone else did, like I did. They should all be off working dull jobs […]

November 26, 2013

First Snow


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The work day goes by a lot faster when you show up late. We had our first snow of the season last night, and while it was only a few inches, I ended up being 45 minutes late to work. I didn’t realize it would slow me down as much as it did. Everyone in […]

November 25, 2013

Website Woes


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I have a few writings on the back-burner at the moment because, if you haven’t noticed, my site is plagued with issues now. I can’t seem to figure out what the problem is. I suspect faulty databases. That’s what I’m going to attempt to fix next. Anyway, hang in there. If things don’t look right […]

November 24, 2013

Peace Corps Service


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“Just because you lived in a mud hut, it doesn’t mean your service was any harder.” -Thomas Ross (Peace Corps Ukraine Director of Programming and Training) I’ve been back a year.

November 20, 2013

Web Redesign 2013


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I know I mentioned a while back that I wanted to redesign my site. It was probably further back than I’m used to for announcing website updates. And I realize, if you poke around this site, nothing has really changed yet. But don’t think I’m not working on it, because I am. I’m limited on […]

November 19, 2013