About That Photo
The story behind my About Me photo, and the hidden Kentucky family cemetery where I found an unexpected sense of peace, belonging, and home.
Memories, creations and curiosities preserved from a life lived somewhere outside the ordinary.
The story behind my About Me photo, and the hidden Kentucky family cemetery where I found an unexpected sense of peace, belonging, and home.
A story my brother told me about an ordinary afternoon at Evergreen Cemetery in 1994 left me with an image I never witnessed. More than three decades later, I’m still trying to understand why it never left me.
The Midnight Archive awakens… A newly reimagined home for personal stories, creative reflection and the written word, preserved somewhere outside the ordinary.
As if the annual summer inferno in the Ohio Valley couldn’t be more annoying. Normally on these countdowns I do my usual ranting and raving about how much summer sucks, and all of us who share the opinion about these dreary, torturous months (regardless of where you live) look ahead to Autumn with endearing anticipation.
🎶On the first day of summer my true love gave to me… heat stroke and dysentery.🎶
One of the most frequent questions I get asked in my life is “why do you hate summer?” (Laughing) In my world, that’s like asking me why I hate ticks, traffic, houseflies, allergies, sinus congestion, insomnia, fireworks, humidity, yard work (you see where this is going).
Counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Autumnal Equinox of 2023.
here’s to another round of counting down the miserable inferno of summer, one painstaking day at a time. As always, the autumn equinox will set us free and officially begin the best time of the year. Till then… cheers to a nice, chilly solitude
Literally, we’d shoot on VHS. If I had four hours of raw video, it took four hours to feed it all into my editing machine, as I had to play it real-time while my hard drive recorded it (like a VCR).
First and foremost, this was the slowest shipping I’ve ever experienced in my life. 44 days from the time I ordered to when the product finally arrived at my doorstep. That’s over 6 weeks.