THE JOURNAL

OOh boy, you guys. It’s going to be midnight by the time I actually publish this post, but I’m just going to go ahead and change that so it looks like I posted at 5am. It’s just been one of THOSE days. You know, the kind where I can’t even TAKE  A SHOWER without being […]

Once upon a time I thought that December/January/February meant “vacation mode” for photographers. A chance to take a break? Eat on a normal schedule, do those projects I’d been putting off all summer? Go into hibernation, maybe? But I’m learning that’s not the case at all! While I may not be shooting as much as […]

This was such an incredible journey for me to take – not just the physical journey of getting on planes and driving, but also the emotional and spiritual journey of coming together with 15 other once-strangers and experiencing the wonders of God’s creations together. I’ll be splitting the trip into a few different posts, and […]

I’ve been putting off writing this post for as long as I could, because writing it requires me to think about it, and its just easier to be away from my kids when I don’t think about them. But we hit an interesting point in the trip, about three days ago, and everyone felt it. […]

I moved to Idaho from in between 6th and 7th grade. It was a tough time for an early teen to move from small-town Wisconsin where most everyone knew my name and liked me for it, to small-town Idaho where no one knew my name and no one cared. But I worked hard to beat […]