Day in My Life
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009You know it’s been a long drought when you forget you have a leaky roof until you are reminded two years later. It began at 3 a.m., as all annoying events should. Plop. What? Must’ve been a dream. Plop. Nope, my forehead is wet. Plop. Oh geez. I got up to turn on the light. The [...]
Skydiving for the rip-cord challenged
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I owe my life to a man named Matt Bessonette. Well, sort of. Matt is a tandem instructor at Skydive Spaceland, a flight school outside of Houston where both ordinary people and extreme-sport junkies hang out to jump from airplanes. Matt is very good at what he does — strapping newbie after newbie into harnesses, [...]
On Class Reunions
Monday, June 16th, 2008Nelson Mandela once said: There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. I suspect most of us who attend class reunions find this to be true. Last weekend I went to my own 20th high school reunion in the little town of [...]
The fight is ON
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Many of you know I’ve been fighting the City of Austin over the $50 per-session fee they now charge for professional photographers to use Zilker Botanical Gardens. I have not asked for the fee to go away, only for them to charge us an annual fee instead so that photographers like me can absorb the [...]
And we’re off!
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The New Year is out of the starting blocks, and I’ve already checked several of my January goals off my list. Started submitting writing again Got my studio un-Christmastized and shot my first sitting Located a company to manage my emails to you guys (they are going to be so much prettier and more functional as [...]
Crazy Tales and November Folly
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007In the last few years, Halloween has taken on a significance unknown in my previous thirty-um, thirty-some-odd years. No longer a holiday marked mainly by passing out candy or possibly going to some grown up party, it’s a big day for my children to demonstrate their personalities through their costumes, and at midnight, it’s the [...]
Ho Ho Humbug
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007It’s that time of year where I break out my Christmas tree, pull out the Santa hats, and prepare for the onslaught of holiday portraits. Every year, families who come back season after season ask me, “What’s new this year?” Well, this year it is *supposed* to be my Ho Ho Ho props. I saw [...]
Black Cats/White Cats
Saturday, October 27th, 2007I’m not very superstitious. I might believe in signs and symbols, but mainly that’s because I think we can act on what we want to see and believe, much like we read a horoscope and take away only what applies to us. But two days ago, when a black cat took the trouble and danger to dart [...]
Gearing Up for NaNoWriMo
Friday, October 19th, 2007I do love the fall. When you feel the relief from the heat, the chill rippling across your skin, it relaxes your tension and slows your pace, no longer a rush from air conditioned car to air conditioned house. We can pause a bit, listen to the leaves rustle, push our hair out of our face from [...]
Happy Occasions
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Sometimes it’s fun to be a photographer, as I get to capture people’s events for them. There have been many happy moments in my friends’ lives lately, and I am pleased to have been able to be a part of them. Baby Kayleigh got a surprise shower (of course she didn’t see a thing, still [...]
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