I took a day off today. This wasn’t a day when I didn’t go to the office because I had meetings elsewhere. I just didn’t go. I didn’t grade. I didn’t do any part of my job. I took an actual day off. For landscaping. There were landscapers about ready to scape, and I had [...]

Posted via web from Just Haphazardry This was taken with my phone. It doesn’t count as part of my photography project, but it was my dinner tonight. It’s from that Thai place over on that little road over there behind the old mall and before you get to the dealership. That one, not the other [...]

I love that people all around me go crazy with writing poems every April. Okay, not everyone around me, but the poets do. I can’t follow suit. I tried last year to join the poem-a-day for April festivities. I lasted two days. Two very fine days. If I were to make another attempt, I might [...]

Same moon. Different shutter speed. Sometimes in low light photographs come out looking like paintings, especially if your hand shakes. Sometimes moons come out looking like hearts. Beautiful moon out tonight.

I should have spent yesterday grading. I mean I really should have. I was mentally recovering from putting on a symposium (along with Sheldon Walcher, Kim Walker, and others) at USM on digital composition. I didn’t feel capable of grading, and it’s a theory of mine that it isn’t fair to students to force myself [...]