I got out for the first time today with my camera! 📸 Christina came with me and we trekked a bit thru the Old Falls. It was easily the best weather day of the year so far and we made the most of it. We stopped at Menomonee Park on the way home with hope to hit sunset on the way but I missed it by about twenty...

Working in the grocery industry, you’re forced to think well into the future, whether you like to or not. That means your local grocery store is already focusing on Easter Sunday, now that Valentine’s is out of the way. This sticks out more than normal this year because on the fact of everything that has happened...

Two days ago I'm digging around in Lightroom looking for a good nighttime city photo to use on the main page of my other website. After finding one I went to crop the photo, when I turned to Christina and asked for her input. I told her the tidbit I had heard about stuff being cropped out of photos. "All in our All...

On this day three years ago, I bought my first mirrorless camera and started my journey into digital photography. Perhaps it is better explained as me “getting back on the horse”, because I did own cameras back in the day, but they were point-and-shoot devices. Nothing fancy. But none of that seemed to matter to me...

As I gaze at documents that I sent to Readwise back in 2023, one has to wonder: Does Anybody Actually Read Later? I feel like this idea of “reading later” was a bullshit habit created by business-savvy nerds who wanted to sell something but needed to first create a problem. How do we not know that doing shit like...

Trying to determine what it is that prevents a person, and by that I mean me, from having a series of good days back-to-back has been taking up more of my attention than usual as of late. I believe for myself it has a lot to do with patience. There are these things that I would like to see become a reality; some of...

A long time ago, when I was approaching the age of thirty, I can recall lying in bed one night and feeling ‘the age of thirty’ hit me. It was a physiological sensation. I felt it and it was like this layer was placed on top of everything I had learned about the world until that point and solidified it. There were...

Sleep is one of the most important things a person can do for their well-being. It is the easiest to do because it requires nothing of you at all other than to put your mind at ease and fall into dreamland. Matthew Walker’s book “Why We Sleep” goes into some massive detail about this, and I read that book years ago....

This has not been an easy-ride by a couple thousand miles, but there does seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. Grandma is improving. My Sister, Uncle, Christina and I have broken up the week so the entire shit doesn't land on my Mother's shoulders cos she was starting to show real signs of Hard Stress. There...

When Christina found Pixel at the Humane Society, and we adopted our second cat, that was yet another entry on our constantly growing "List of first-times" because while I have had cats in the past, I've never been in a situation where I had two of the same animal. I have always heard people say that you should have...

I do not like to use the word blogging. It has never felt like what I was up to. Growing up, when I read other people’s blogs and got that sense of connection, I really felt like these people embodied something that I simply lacked, and it’s for that reason I was drawn to that post or person. But as I get older, and...

"One of my rituals at the end the year is asking myself these forty questions." — Steph Ango I don't be trying to get all fancy with these. This does not evolve into an essay. But now that I have a small stack of them, I am delighted that I have kept up with them. What did you do this year that you’d never done...