Cowboy Up

Today I had a great photo shoot.  I was tasked with photographing a group of 7-year-olds who all have movement disorders.  When I asked for a definition of that, one of the supervisors said that they weren’t especially good at coordinating their left and right sides.  So, for example, one of the kids just seemed a bit lax about using his left hand as much as he should when doing a two-handed task.  The great thing is, kids are kids no matter what’s going on. ... Read More

Do We Allow Our Existence?

Or are we merely the beneficiaries and victims of Existence, depending on the flap of the butterfly’s wings?  Things happen.  Shit happens.  Life happens.  Ups and downs and gutters and strikes.  Why do things happen?  Who knows why the vibrations among the atoms of the universe gang up on us or choose to shower us with joy.  To make sense of it all would be as pointless as analyzing the meaning behind a children’s playground of teeter-totters, slides and... Read More

Instruction Manual – Life – 2010

I don’t know about you, but I sometimes feel shortchanged by the instruction manual I received when I was born.  Oh wait, there isn’t an instruction manual for Life.  What the heck?!  There are instruction manuals for everything, even chopsticks.  The first time I saw those three Chinese pictures on the side of the wrapper, I thought it was a funny cool little cartoon, like the kind you used to get with that rock hard bubblegum.  But once I realized they were... Read More