The woman next to me in black and gold leaned over and said, “For such a little thing, you sure do have a set of lungs!  You’re carrying this entire section.”  The lungs lasted me the entire game and then went scratchy and hoarse promptly afterwards and the entire section was filled with Hawkeye fans, […]

As you may know, there’s some division in our small family of two.  Kevin is a Hawkeye fan; I am a Buckeye fan.  Neither of us is willing to change teams.  And so it’s here: the day when we don our opposing team shirts and cheer against each other.  I’ve got the tickets in hand and […]

 This family was a riot to shoot!  They were so go-with-the-flow and, when I arrived first and discovered that our planned location was blocked with visciously threatening government construction signs, we just jumped on over to a nearby area and took it from there.  It was a classically chilly Fall day, but they were troopers the […]

When life throws me a curve ball, I have no idea how to hit it.  I almost jump back from the plate as I swing and hear the bat whistle through dead air.  Then I hear, “steeee-rike!” It sucks.  I don’t like failure and I certainly don’t like strikes.  I always forget that I’ll only […]

I was setting my alarm last night before bed when I skipped over a screen to my world clock settings. I have several times zones selected–Chicago at GMT-6, Columbus at GMT-5–but my favorite time zone is Tashkent. It’s the capital of Uzbekistan and a city that I visited only four times: when I first flew […]

Although her parents had prepped her before we met, Romy was as shy as a little mouse.  We tried just about everything but she wasn’t having me.  I understood.  I didn’t look at a camera for a whole year when I was her age.  In fact, I remember being tempted with a lollipop one time, […]