How to Find Beauty in the Blunder

Since the age of eight, I have owned a camera. I enjoy documenting special events, creating colorful scrapbooks and periodically reviewing my personal narrative. It wasn’t until six years ago, however, that I began to use photography as a method of artistic...

Seize the Moment

My word of the year is DELIGHT. I love the multi-layered meaning. Its definition is extreme joy, which reminds me to find beauty in the every day world. In addition, the sound of the word evokes a feeling of weightlessness: learning to let go of things that hold me...

What Barcode are You Wearing?

As soon as I woke, I felt it – stuck on my neck, so I reached and pulled it off. Since my glasses rested on my lamp table, I held it close and saw it was a white sticker with black print. The barcode from the back of a book I had read the night before. The price was...