Thoughts – September 7, 2022

Things that run through my mind as I gaze at my two week old daughter: //35mm photo of ceramics and peppercorns from Heath Ceramics in Sausalito, CA. Many years ago – maybe 2017?

Airports

The last time I was in an airport, it was November of last year, when we flew back East for Thanksgiving. Going from traveling nearly every month, much of it international, to zero travel is a lot like running at full speed and then trying to stop, skidding, screeching, screaming. I think those last three […]

Sunsets

I realized a couple days ago that I haven’t seen a sunset in a while. What was even more startling was realizing that I probably won’t be seeing any sunsets for a while. I gave birth to my son earlier this year, right as governments realized that the pandemic wasn’t, as the President claimed, going […]

Hello, again.

Hello, it’s been a hot minute. I don’t know that I will start writing again with any sort of regularity, but given the rigors this year has put us through to date, it might be a place to start regaining my sanity. It’s been three years since my last entry here. I kept this website […]

Embarking on a Black and White Journey

For those of you who follow me on Instagram in addition to this blog, you already know that, starting January 1 of this year, I started on a new project. Yes, my friends– I am now shooting in all black and white. And I am not talking about just converting select color photos to black and white, but […]

Ooh de lally (Thoughts on Solo International Travel for Work)

I often pass this fella on my way to my company’s Hong Kong office from my hotel. Undistracted by passing traffic and immune to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, he looks like he’s listening to a storyteller weave a fascinating story. // 35mm film photo, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, August 2016. I travel […]

James Turrell: “we are dwellers at the bottom of the ocean of air.”

James Turrell is a master of light. … We went to the de Young in San Francisco to check out the Ed Ruscha exhibit a couple months ago. We had tickets to see the museum, too, and we were excited to explore properly. A friend of mine was married at the de Young years ago, […]

Roses in Napa

Somewhere along the way, I was lost. But then I found myself. Or, at least, pieces of myself. Step by step, like Hansel and Gretel picking up the crumbs they left behind, I am following the crumbs of who I am. I’ve gone through many iterations of “me-ness.” My haecceity. (That’s a new word I […]

Taipei Cafe Dreaming

Every now and then I have an out-of-body experience. This isn’t to say that I actually leave my body and experience the supernatural. Rather, I am suddenly thrust into the realization that the life I live is truly what I’m experiencing. It isn’t someone else’s story that I’m reading or watching pass by. No. […]

Someone Else’s Childhood (in Taiwan)

There’s something unsettling about nostalgia that doesn’t belong to you. The bittersweet melancholy of realizing you’re witnessing someone else’s memories is poignant. Stories others have told have painted hazy images in my mind’s eye, and I can recognize snapshots from their memories as I go about my adult life, but it’s just not the same. […]