Marriage: From your perspective

Thank you, Readers for hanging tight while I continue to pull back on the amount of time I spend in this space. As you know, the project I’m working on has my barely-divided attention, so you’ve probably already noticed that posting has been light on all sections across the site. What you might not have [...]

Greg Fockers’ long lost sister

Found: Ribbons from two (of the many) gymnastics meets I competed in, circa 1997. But to my defense, I was in middle school, and competing with and against high school students. Now, someone call my agent, I need to schedule a meeting with Robert De Niro.

How to capture the ‘big picture’ with detail shots

I started writing this article about how to capture details. Although there are ‘detail’ pictures present, it’s ended up being more about how to accurately portray an entire series of images to depict an event. Since my days of art school, I’ve always thought of photographs as groupings, creating an entire body of work instead [...]

GRÖNÖ table lamps

The Boss and I have a five-head floor lamp in our bedroom, which we endearingly refer to as “The Medusa Lamp,” but it’s plugged into the outlet that’s connected to the light switch that’s a few feet away from our bed. This means, in order to turn off the light, one of us would have [...]

Behind the Back Bay

Close to midnight, the view from the window of our hotel room in Boston. In the bustling city, this was a rare but beautiful moment of the peace and quiet. Along with a change of scenery, it was exactly what we needed to recharge.

Breaking up with Brenda and a sponsored giveaway

When I was in the 6th grade, I fell in love with Brenda Barrett (actress Vanessa Marcil) from General Hospital. I’m not sure how I fumbled upon the soap opera, but I became obsessed with it to a point that we were on a family vacation in Southern Germany when I heard two American women [...]

Silence is golden on movie night

Dear Sabrina, My boyfriend’s roommate just started dating a really great girl a few months ago. We get along really well, and I’m happy there’s another girl for me to hang out with when I’m at my boyfriend’s apartment. My boyfriend and I have gone on a number of double dates with his roommate and [...]

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