When I was young, my granddaddy would tell me stories about the “good old days” and how kids these days didn’t have the sense God gave a goose. Of course he also loved to tell me how he used to walk 20 miles to school, uphill both ways, and barefoot. Every once in a while …

It takes a village to raise a child.” African Proverb Listening to all the nearly vicious political debates in the news, I began to wonder. In the middle of all of this, who is watching out for the children? Is this truly the example we want them to learn? How can we claim to be …

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” Mark Twain I am smack dab in the middle of some serious spring …

When a photographer captures an image, that image becomes an intimate look inside their very soul, a peek at the world through their eyes…. I often see a mirror of me, of my thoughts within, when I am sorting through the pictures I take. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that I …

The expression on Lemur’s face, moments before his surprise attack on Taylor, was absolutely priceless. You could literally see him planning how this was all gonna go down. Finally, he would be king of the mountain, or in reality, king of the couch. I seriously considered stepping in, or at least giving her a warning …

So you’ve got the ball, huh? Whatcha gonna do with it? Run like heck of course! What possible sense could it make to just stand there holding it? What are you doing? Waiting for someone to take it away from you? RUN! Life is always a series of choices. Yes, we can make the wrong …

Sometimes ya just gotta scratch that itch. We grew up hearing not to go out in the cold rain, for fear we would get sick. To heck with it! Run, play, and love it until you are too exhausted to play another minute. Go ahead! Get drenched! Jump in the puddles and fall in the …

‎When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.” Ansel Adams Even when I don’t mean for it …

Ain’t no rhyme or reason, no complicated meaning, ain’t no need to over think it, let’s go laughing. Life don’t go quite like you planned it. We try so hard to understand it. Irrefutable, indisputable, the fact is, psssh. It happens…” I often wonder if Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush (Sugarland) know how many smiles …

No matter how easy going we are, most of us need to blow off a little steam now and then. Perhaps we are a bit frustrated with a project, or maybe we are just overtired and feel the overwhelming urge to throw something because we just can’t get it to work. Okay, so I admit …