I had the opportunity to listen to two and half hours of the best live music I’ve heard in along time last night. My dad had been planning the concert, a fundraiser for People of Faith for Peace, for months and despite cold weather, lots of rain and the threat of snow, more than […]

I hope that everyone out there had as wonderful a Christmas as the one my family had today.  It was intentionally light on presents, but overflowing with an abundance of love.  We cooked and ate together, and a dinner that was originally planned for seven expanded to feed eleven.  And the fridge is still overflowing […]

My sister rolled into town with her boyfriend Trevor around 5 pm this afternoon, which means that all the necessary holiday parties are present and accounted for. My parents and I spent most of the day talking about doing some early food prep without actually getting down to business, so my dad and I […]

This afternoon my mom and I went out for a walk with the dog. This is a fairly normal occurrence around these parts, but it’s the first time I decided to bring my camera along and capture what I saw as we walked. It rained most of the day around here, only really […]

When I bought my D50 last summer, I chose a Nikon in large part because that’s the brand of camera that my dad has.  It wasn’t so much familial brand loyalty that motivated me, as much as a hope that I’d be able to convince my dad to share a particular lens with me.
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The last week has been something of a humdinger.  I finished my thesis, wrapped up my last class of grad school and started a relationship, all within the same five day period.  And then tomorrow afternoon I get on a train that will take me up to the Newark Airport and I’ll fly off to […]

If any of you were thinking about coming out tonight to help celebrate my graduation, I want to let you know that the venue has changed.  We’re going to be at Triumph (117-121 Chestnut Street) instead of National Mechanics, as they are hosting a burlesque show for which there is a $20 cover.

Around 2:30 pm yesterday, I suddenly stumbled into a period where I couldn’t cope.  Where everything converged and I truly felt like I might fall apart.  Within half an hour I found out that my great-aunt was in the hospital and that a job application process I’ve been in hit a stumbling block.  I couldn’t […]

I left my computer for two and a half hours this afternoon to go meet with my thesis adviser one last time (got the final edits!) and go to the grocery store.  When I returned I discovered that my eBay account had been hacked and it had been used to send out a bunch of […]

Tonight I attended the very last class of my grad school career.  It was sort of anticlimactic, being that I haven’t really loved this class and have been anxiously awaiting it’s end.  I still have one more paper to write for it, but then I’m home free.  The thesis is all but done, save some […]