Traveling Through The Weirdness That's My Life
In case you’ve never heard it, or maybe you have but forgot it, Ernest Hemingway’s advice to budding authors was “Write drunk; edit sober.” I’ve updated that to be more appropriate for the 21st century: And hey! It’s definitely for the “budding” author! But I digress. Why I Always Write Straight or Sober Look, I…
Are you writer? Do you spend hours alone in your room, staring at the walls until 3 a.m. when you finally are exhausted enough to sit down and let the words come without you getting in the way? Do you look at what few friends you have and think, “She’d make a great character for…
I got the idea for the title of this post from a quote I found about writing: The craft, art, science, practice, or whatever else you wish to call it, of photography is all about light. Light’s a form of electromagnetic energy—one our bodies have evolved to sense and interpret. We’ve also developed ways of…
My iPad Mini was starting to show its age. It was slow, and I made the mistake of buying one with the minimum amount of memory. You can’t do a whole lot with 32Gb, and I wanted one with more. The problem? I couldn’t afford to buy one outright, so I took me off to…
“ April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.”–T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land It’s springtime in Rochester, and that means sunshine, rain, snow, and ice—sometimes in the same week, sometimes in…