What does your travel eye see when you are filled with wonder? As you travel about you and snap photos from every angle, what does your eye take in? What does your mind take in? So many things stay in our periphery but we should strive to bring […]
Wide-eyed girl staring at the fire We got the call at 11:03pm. It was a simple-breeze kind of night. Cincinnati in the summer time has its own rhythms. Particularly back then. Its not easy being a fireman in these parts of town. Was hoping for an easy scene. […]
The pastel harvest of Autumn: Enjoy the softness, sedateness, and sanity We are surrounded and embedded within a color spectrum. Colors talk to us and we use colors to talk out loud and shout out (or perhaps whisper) our emotional states. Pastels in their softness and sense of […]
1689 People: That’s what I am aiming for conversation-wise in the next month 1689. Does anyone into numerology know what that number signifies? For me, at the moment, it is the number of followers I still have to reach out to. Last December I made it a point to […]
<blockquote>Thought I was a Cornflakes Girl and that is OK I get a wickedly rapid twitch when I hear people misuse or distort common words and phrases such as “irregardless” or “work/life” balance. Of course, I have my own word distortions. Growing up cereal was a luxury. I […]
Photos: Archeological signs in El Valle de Antón, Panama Part of what my son loves about travel is discovering old cities. He has inherited my sense of trying to be like Indiana Jones. When we visited Panama City, he had a grand time in the old city […]
Fiery Yellow: No need to be mellow this Monday I was recently at a children’s birthday party where I met a woman who, like me, enjoys taking 100s upon hundreds of photos while on vacation. She downloads the every night and send s them out to her […]
An interview with Napoléon Bonaparte: How to work for an egomaniac Last Christmas, a friend gave me a book “how to work for an idiot.” I took numerous photos with the book cover while posing in deep contemplation. Seriously, however, there is not much to ponder there. […]
Dream a little lucid dream to calm the nerves down: Although Walter Mitty I am not Have you seen the movie The Secret of Life of Walter Mitty? I have and didn’t care for it one bit. Of course, I was hopped up on meds and […]
Experimenting with Nightime Photography in Australia This past summer I had the grand opportunity to go to Australia. It was winter there and the conference I attended was a bit somber due to the downed Malaysian flight. Thus, while Australia is a beautiful country with stunning landscapes […]