Oh, April.  You were challenging.  Between birthday parties, engagement sessions, banquets, graduations, retirements, skill saw accidents, exploding studio lights (really), yearbook photos, and just general insanity at work during the busiest month the school has seen since I started working here, I was feeling a bit, well, like this chicken:

Stretched thin, for sure. But graduation [...]

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A couple days ago I got a phone call from my mom containing several words that made my heart stand still.  “Skill saw,” “Accident,” “Ambulance,” “David.”  I sat frozen at my desk, waiting for information as my mom followed an ambulance carrying my stepdad to the hospital.
Thankfully, he is going to be fine.  Thankfully, my [...]

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Here’s a little-known fact about my family: my stepdad and mom raise chickens so they don’t have to buy eggs.
Actually that isn’t a little-known fact if you know me at all because I think it is so fun and I tell everyone the first chance I get. (Even though I actually do not [...]

Continue to: Bring It On Down to Amishville!

Today was a sweet day.  I slept in, whiled away the morning/early afternoon at the bookstore, came home with some new reads, and then had a late lunch with my dad and my brother.

A quick snap–I’m trying to train myself that when it comes to photographing my life, I don’t always have to wait for [...]

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This is really a repost of a facebook note, but I haven’t blogged in a while, and I spent more time on this than I actually planned, so I am getting as much use out of it as possible.
RULES: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, [...]

Continue to: 25 Things. Sort of.