The Erie BayHawks today acquired guard Jermaine Beal from the Austin Toros as part of a three-team deal.

    I shot this image in the middle of a ninety-five degree day in Dallas, Texas.  I have to say, I hate to shoot int he middle of the day but sometimes that is the only time to shoot.  With a some judicious cropping,…

My mother always said “You gotta get them on the rug before you can pull it out from under them”. And never have truer words been spoken. Until that is, you are the one on the rug and The Powers That Be decide said rug should operate like a roller-coaster. The Powers That Be, forthwith [...]

Well its been a week, almost to the minute, that I became the Unemployed Career Woman.   Although this week has posed many ups and downs, I am confident that someway-somehow, I will always end up on my feet.

Although the ultimate goal is full-tim…

If you can, please give.

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Once upon a time there was a mean CEO who decided to pick on the defenseless petite employee. I am not sure if it was his need to feel in control or if it was his arrogance had just gotten the best of him.  Regardless it was time that he be made a…

Apparently being unemployed increases your appetite (who knew?!?).  Spending the week eating Girl Scout cookies, potato chips, and licorice to make myself feel better (I kept telling myself how much I deserved them after the week I just had) wasn’…

We are on the verge of announcing our first- ever five-week Photoshop class. Designed for the beginner, this class will, in five short weeks, unlock the mystery and introduce you to the wonder of Photoshop. Transform the ordinary into th…

I’m not sure which of my coaches at Gannon made that statement. “Respect the game.” It might have been Ruby, Reilly, or Rorie (Pugliese) — maybe all of them said it at one time or another. Dukiet, Chapman, and Kalbugh echoed the same sentiment. Above …

  The second Letter to Chloe in this series is done! Ok so now that I have showed you the finished piece lets go back to where I left off from my last post in which I was getting read to transfer the image of the bird to my paper.
I got so ex…

Does the film stand on its own or is it merely Taken Part 2?

Yesterday my wonderful dog decided to eat my remote control.  I can tell you that I was far from impressed.  So last night I was watching a show on a cable network and as soon as it was over there was an infomercial.  Because I was bundl…

Can’t resist the Mist.

As I have been scouring the internet for possible jobs I am noticing more and more positions that are listed by “confidential” companies. Of course these are the positions that sound most appealing to me. However when they are advertising a sales/marke…

This weekend I’ll hit my 36th week of pregnancy. As of last Friday, they say she is weighing in at 6lbs, 10ozs. How accurate are these weigh ins anyway?! I knew I’d be getting a call from my doctor’s office within a few days, and I did. They scheduled …

The City of Erie School Board Has Started to Address Its Budget Issues.

So somehow Mandi dropped the ball on week 18 and never posted so I don’t have a picture that I can copy from her blog.  They say at week 18 the baby is the size of a green bell pepper, so we’ll use our imaginations on how big the baby is.How …

Erie’s gas prices are among the highest on this side of the state. Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu.

1. If you’re open to the experience, your head will spin with ideas…a lot of ideas…really, too many ideas 2. Over stimulation resulting in mental shut-down makes doctoral students pretty similar to a highly functioning autistic. 3. A smart cocktail can make 300 pages of reading pretty darn interesting 4. Sometimes there’s just not enough [...]

The tables have turned and Gabby’s estranged husband–who threw her out when she didn’t live up to his image of a “corporate wife”–needs her in a way neither ever expected. He’s begging for reconciliation, but Gabby has moved on, finding purpose and a…

Choo-choo…

Continuing from the last post … once I am satisfied with the first layout I print the background. The paper I am using here is Natural Lama Li Handmade Paper I purchased from Daniel Smith. My printer is a Canon Pixma Pro which I can do a front feed …

Remember last week when we didn’t need coats?

I finally made it home from an amazing event. It was the Senior Portrait Artists (SPA) national convention held at the Riviera Palm Springs hotel and resort. SPA consists of over 700 members all of which are professional photographers that specialize i…

The Gannon University theatre department in March will host “Mini-Fringe Festival 2011,” a series of plays performed on and off campus.

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Strange to see the grass again, isn’t it?

So, we somehow lost a week.  We counted so carefully, but when we went to the doctor last week we were told we were in our 16th week and thought we were only in our 15th week.  How that happened, we have no idea, but we just finished Week 17….