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Bed Bath and Beyond

I generally don’t like to leave the house. This is especially true on weekends. If I can go the full 48 hours, and spend most of it in my bathrobe or in the yard, I would consider that a success. However, in the wedding off-season getting a full weekend of relaxing into one day isn’t […]

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Pickles and Pirate’s Booty

Our nephew Jacobi is getting older. We celebrated his 3rd birthday this past weekend with pickles, Pirate’s Booty and the rest of his favorite snacks. He’s starting to look like a little man. Especially when he’s bellied up to the bar with his (milk) drinking buddy, Lulu.

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Bedroom

Brooke and I have good taste. Or so we like to think so. However, if we have to do more than simply recognize great design, we’re all but useless. We’ve purchased furniture and other design elements for our spaces, but it’s always haphazard, influenced by a discount, and doesn’t quite work in the way we […]

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Camera Talk

For the past 10 weeks I’ve taught a photography apprenticeship at Garfield Middle School through a wonderful organization called Citizen Schools. We’ve been learning how to compose a photograph, use photography as a means of self-expression, and we also spent time thinking critically about photography and its role in our lives. On Thursday, all the Citizen […]

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Nina

She’s talented. She’s prolific. She’s Nina. She seems to always be around the most interesting people in the most interesting places and then make the most interesting pictures. And the pictures aren’t interesting just because of the subjects but because of the way she sees the subjects. It was great to catch up on my […]

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