#62) Hang up a hammock in the backyard
Growing up, there were two places I always dreamed would be the PERFECT place to read a book. A window seat like this. Annndddd a hammock. There wasn’t a window seat in my childhood home. And the nylon version of a hammock that stood on a stand in...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010 Posted in Personal
Tonight I’ll head back to Fort Wayne to spend time with high school classmates, some of whom I haven’t seen since we walked across that stage together at graduation on a hot June night back in 2000. I remember, when I was a teenager, watching “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” and thinking that...
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Friday, June 18, 2010 Posted in Personal
I don’t know what comes over me but it starts around this time of year, every year. My normal “Top 40 cynical” self starts turning the radio up when a Ke$sha song comes on in the car. And then the windows come down. And before you know it, I’m belting out right along with her...
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I love when you find something on the Internet, something that’s SO good that within 5 minutes you go from, “Eh, this is just another Web site to THIS IS THE COOLEST SITE EVER”.
And then you’re like, “I have GOT to tell someone about this.” And then you email your best friend at work and...
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Get lucky taking a cab driven by a fella who disproves your theory all NYC cabbies have a death wish for their passengers. Feel a little breathless crossing into the city on the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Spend the next few hours walking around the Upper East Side, taking photos of the Guggenheim, Central Park, statues...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Posted in Personal
I used to wonder if I’d ever get sick of traveling. It’s become such a part of my late 20s, something I love to do so very much. Because of this, I’d think to myself, “Nahhh…no way. Not possible. There could never be too much of this kind of good thing.”
After the week I’m coming...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Posted in Personal
“Gail, will you work out with me tonight?” he asks. “It’s just, you know, we bought these tapes and you said you’d do them with me and it’s cardio tonight and…”
Every ounce of me that’s been pummeled by a week with shoot after shoot on top of a day job on top of an overwhelming...
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For most of my weddings, I’m hired as a one-gal show. If I do have someone accompany me, it’s in the role of assistant, never a second shooter. That all changed earlier this month when Courtney Reece accompanied me as second shooter to my most recent wedding. You know how people always talk about how...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 Posted in Personal
When I travel, I embrace my inner tourist. I walk down streets and let loose shrieks of delight when I spot buildings and attractions I’ve admired in books and movies. I pull out one of my handy dandy miniature guidebooks every 3 blocks to, you know, see if there was anything in those last 40...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Posted in Personal
Lately, I’ve been prone to thinking about how much my camera has influenced my life. It’s not magic or anything like that ( just a tool to create the images I do) but one without which I’d have missed out on SO many wonderful things over the past two years. For instance, if there was...
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