Yup, it’s an odd topic.
But here I am with an hour to kill while waiting for my clothes to dry at the laundromat, and there’s really not much to look at except my laptop screen (you do take your laptop to the laundromat, right?) and I’m looking at the small strip wall in which the laundromat is located. Continue reading

The plan is simple: If you are looking to get portraits or headshots done on location somewhere, I will give you a 2-hour photoshoot for free. Gratis. No money. You’ll even get a CD/DVD with all the finished images. 
You know it’s serious when they ask you ‘Do you have an advanced directive?’. This is a very clinical way of asking you ‘If you’re dying and can’t speak for yourself, have you made alternate plans?’. 
It’s a little short of a month since I had my heart attack, and I’m still getting my head around the changes that it requires in my life. This morning, I decided to take a portrait of my new “friends” – the pile of medications I now have to take to give me the best shot at not returning to the hospital again. 
I was waiting for a good silhouetted image against the shimmer of the wet sand, and my daughter finally got into the right spot. 
Shot at Huntington State Beach in Orange County. The waves were huge for this area on this particular day. 
Fair warning: I’m venting.

In a way, it’s kind of like Wish Lists or Bucket Lists – we have these lists of things we want to do with our time, with our lives, and we spend so much time trying to get by that we forget about all those wonderful things we wanted to do. 
The cliche is that life is a circle that we just keep moving around. Time for another spin. 
They see a specific behavior that annoys them, and because it hasn’t improved, they see your parenting as a failure, your child as a brat. 
My unemployment payments are too high to allow me to receive food stamps. Yup, that’s right, I make too much on unemployment to qualify for food stamps.