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Expanding Mind

This represents my journey from being a point-and-shooter into the
world of composing good photographs.
On my side of the door, the instinct to cram every interesting thing
into the frame is strong. After all, if it catches my attention and I
get it in a picture then I have an attention-catching picture, right?
On the other side […]

A poem for my hunnykittysnooglewookumloverbunny:

Presented on Monday as we sat at the same table in the same restaurant where we had our first meal on the day we first met.
(also see an earlier poem)

BREAKING NEWS!
I met her on December 17th, 2006. I fell in love with her on December 18th. She moved in with me around May. On Saturday, September 22nd, I asked her father a very important question. One week later, on the 29th of September, 2007, I asked her to marry me:

For […]

To my hunnybunnysmoochiepieloverbearsnugglewuggles:

Roses are redViolets are blueI wrote and drewThis art-poem for you

From the photoblog department:
I try to go to the cottage for at least a day, if not the whole weekend, on Thanksgiving. I figure if I have anything to be thankful for, it’s this special place where I can go to enjoy a life as removed from the city as I can get it.
This […]

From the departments-are-like-points-on-whose-line department:
This was such a silly conversation that I had with Wartbag Smith (not his real name) that I had to share it with AZROLB. Names are changed to protect the innocent:

(20:20:38) NorMMonkeY: I had a cool idea today at lunch
(20:20:43) WartBag: do tell..
(20:20:56) NorMMonkeY: I went to Wendy’s and I brought […]

From the silly-childrens-stories department:
THE DUMPTYS
Humpty Dumpty was a blacksmith, working in the castle smithy for the King. The smithy, if one went looking for it, would be found between the soldiers’ barracks and the stables along the castle’s inner wall. Between the outer and inner walls lay the homes of many peasants and […]

From the camping-hiking department:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE READER: Before you start, know that for a short story, this will be pretty long. Prepare thine eyes and mind, for I allowed mine to wander to a Storyteller’s Place as I put thoughts to words.
Oh, yeah - it comes with pictures, too! Anyways, read on, and […]

From the vacation-in-south-dakota department:
The Badlands. The Black Hills. Deadwood Gulch.
Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? Turns out that it’s loads of fun, though! I’m sitting here by the pool writing this as the rest of the monkeys my family go swimming. I’ll go get my fill of pool in a few minutes, […]

From the junk-mail department:
It’s been a good winter.
In the winter, the child slave labour that the junk-mail mafia use to make the deliveries are too lazy to go out in the cold.
In the summer, it’s a whole different ballgame. You turn your back for one second, ONE SECOND, and the next thing you know […]