I started to develop a new habit, and I’m pretty happy about it. I wake up between 5:30 and 6 almost every morning. I am still trying to get that down to an everyday thing, although it’s happening most days,… Read More »Then I put makeup on

She stood against the wind, letting it whip her hair across her face. The sand licked her ankles just under the hem of her denim jeans. It was not a pleasant feeling, the sand against her ankles. It stung as… Read More »A description of an Instagram image

Making decisions can be almost paralyzingly hard for me. Even the simplest thing like whether I want to buy a sweater from a specific store or keep looking seems to take forever. I will look at it, pull it up… Read More »Decisions, Decisions

I’m not someone who fears change just because it’s change. In fact, I actually like change. I like fresh starts and planning for the future. I don’t love packing up my things, but I do love the feeling of moving… Read More »loyalty to myself

Social media has its flaws. I won’t argue against that. It can make us jealous, petty, discontented with our own lives. It seems superficial at times, and it can be hard for us to separate the final cut of someone’s… Read More »Another observation about social media

I was working on a presentation the other day for a conference I’m attending and doing a short little lecture for. As I worked through my slides, making notes and honing in on the topic I want to discuss, I… Read More »I like public speaking

We all do a fair amount of trial and error in our lives. As much as we’d like to think that we can control the world through getting educated and taking exact steps forward, we still really have not much… Read More »Trial and Error

Here we go. I’m about to Ramble about Bourdain again. I just can’t shake the man’s death or the impact he made during his life. I find myself analyzing every little facial expression he made, every comment, every movie he… Read More »Another post that’s kind of about Anthony Bourdain

I tend to like things manicured. I want trees to be uniform. I don’t like to see them half dead. It bothers me. And I think that most people are attracted to this state of order. But nature is messy.… Read More »Nature is messy

That’s the honest truth. It was never my intention to be a wedding photographer. In that year that I spent bumming around our one-bedroom apartment in Maryland, trying to figure out where I would go next in my career, laying… Read More »I never set out to shoot weddings