I actually wrote this out today:  Fruit  Vegetables Dish Soap Frozen Stuff Canned Goods Meat Admittedly, not my best list ever. I think my best list ever was I’m sorry 07′ you knew this was coming, were over. I’m with 2008 now. But hell everything I write can’t be pure genius…

While looking through old files I came upon a saved document with the above title (sans sock gloves, that’s pure PrettyMike.) Opening it I found it’s “suggestions” to be  pure gold…(which I tried to sell to a refiner online but they refused.) It’s nothing you haven’t heard before, it’s not  groundbreaking or new, just a few gems [...]

“I’m nervous Daddy.” “Me too!” I said without pause It was not “pit in my stomach” nervous. This feeling was different, I was nervous that she was going to be the new girl in a new school in a new city. Having switched schools more times than I care to count growing up,  I know all to well [...]

As far as Sunday’s go, yesterday from Top to Bottom was just BULLY! It was almost 60 in the District and its residents were out enjoying the sun beating down on our National Mall.  Kids flying kites, couples walking their dog or kicking a ball around with their kids. Norman Rockwell could not have painted an [...]

This morning I woke up early, anxiously waiting for my duties as a FTF (full time father) to begin…green tea, banana pancakes and turkey bacon were all staged and ready. Subtly, I blasted music until she woke up looking at me like I was crazy…”you can go back to sleep if you want to” I said [...]

Taylor turned 12 today- a pre-teen. (crap-eola) And tomorrow she’s coming to live with her Dad, starting a new school, a new dance program, a theater program and still wanted to go to New York on Sunday to shoot a pilot…kids got juevos, I dig that! One the Eve of what will surely be a life [...]

Walking through the National Cathedral mid-day, mid-week after a lunch appointment a few weeks ago the hope and history were heavy in the air. I remembered Ronald Reagan’s Funeral then Theodore Roosevelt, President when building started and H.W Bush who was President when it finished. As I walked around trying to soak in everything I [...]

If your beliefs are so fragile that someone asking about them, challenging them or questioning their validity offends you, perhaps you should re-evaluate what you believe. You wouldn’t build a house on a wall that wasn’t load bearing, why build your life on beliefs that succumb to scrutiny? There is no growth without resistance, physically, [...]

This morning I’ve spent time considering whether my eternal optimism in fact is a passive fatalist view of the world. Tell me your problem, I can think of someone who has it worse. When I hear complaining, I take an assessment of what I am hearing and who I am hearing it from and then [...]

When photographing train tracks turn off your music. In my mind, I’m a Native American tracker. Hunting only the finest photographs wherever my feet lead me. Why turn off my music? If a train is going to come, I will feel the ground tremble…see the leaf shake, feel the wind on my face etc etc The [...]