This past weekend my sister-in-law and mother-in-law arrived for a ten day vacation. Saturday was spent relaxing around the house, but Sunday we decided to take a quick day trip up to Timberline Loge on Mount Hood for lunch and a trip up the mountain on the chairlift.
I don’t recall much of the chairlift as my eyes were closed for the larger part of the ride up, and even more so on the ride back down… still I was able ot get a few good pictures on the trip:
Around a year ago, I was privileged enough to obtain a large-format commission slot from one of my favourite artists and favourite people. Through her Patreon, in support of her amazing 4-year run podcast (now-shuttered to make room for focus on her trauma-informed coaching business), I secured the commission slot and started the conversations. Knowing…
Ah, the long awaited recap on last weekend when I met my 33 year old sister, for the first time. A testament to the powers of the internet, as we found each other through Ancestry.com, and have been communicating via email and Facebook since October ’09. I have come to realize I do not posses…
As promised, pics of the new cut, behind the cut, like a good little emo kid: A direct link to the Picasa album is here. Enjoy.
Social media is striating our beliefs, enlarging the gaps between us, and serving to highlight our differences to the extremes. It is a culture changing phenomena which we can not take for granted, nor willingly participate in without conscious and critical thought. My friend Jeanne Ivy posted on her own blog this week about social…
I strive to be the dumbest one in the room. I’ve used this admittedly provocative quip for quite a few years now, with the underlying genesis being “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room” taken to an absurd extreme. It’s the duality of the notion that I love:…
Just yes or no, thank you. Is social media reducing our critical thinking skills to mere binary this-or-that type choices? Whether it is gender roles, politics, or any other topic of human conversation, it seems to me that the way in which social media allows us to share our views has relegated the conversation into…
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