Saturday was Amanda and Joe’s day! They had perfect weather and an amazing wedding. Following formals, we headed out to a special place for some fun images. The reception was at the Erie Maennerchor ballroom, one of my favorite places in our town….

A few days ago, I posted “A Modest Proposal to Deal With the Debt Crisis.”  It seemed like a reasonable idea at the time, and it still seems like my idea will work better than some of the other ideas being proposed.  As I write this, the Senate is working on a bill that the [...]

What we’ve been up to:Spending time with Drew’s folks -surprising them with the introduction of their first grandson:Cherishing visits with our precious son:Celebrating seven years of marital bliss:July 2004July 2011Happy and blessed are we.

Even though this past Thursday was muggy and wet, the attendees at the annual Erie Club picnic held at Waldameer were still able to enjoy themselves. One person in particular made a surprise appearance to the Erie Club picnic. Governor Tom Corbett was …

The object that I am finding to be out of focus and that I am out of touch with is reality.It could well be the stuff I’ve been ingesting. But some of it has to to with other”bad habits” that have been acquired. One of which, as mentioned before, is sp…

Family and friends are so important in our daily lives. Melissa and Jimmy, whose wedding day was on Saturday, are very family oriented people. And, they appreciate greatly the love and support of friends as well. It was family and a love of tennis that…

By Nicholas Kristof:In these polarized times, few words conjure as much distaste in liberal circles as “evangelical Christian.”That’s partly because evangelicals came to be associated over the last 25 years with blowhard scolds. When the Rev. Jer…

I’ve decided to try a new schedule for channel 9.3. The first time I put together a schedule I think the programming became boring because the same movies played at the same time every day. That schedule didn’t lend itself to discovery of a movie that you may wanted to watch.

Well, I’ve given another [...]

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The festival at Canadohta Lake, Canna Doo Wop, is set for August 6 and there is room for more crafters. The Arts and Craft Show

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Friday was the setting for the Save an Eye game – a match pitting the Erie city all stars against their peers in the county.I was asked again this year and accepted the role of staff photographer, taking images for the program book (which looked great!…

Seems I’ve actually been able to keep things together enough to get the new movies loaded on time for August on channel 9.3. Below is the latest roster of films:

Aerial Gunner – Starring Richard Arlen and Chester Morris
Mr. Wong in Chinatown – Starring Boris Karloff and Marjorie Reynolds
Captain Calamity – [...]

July 4th was kinda low key for us. I had to work that day and my cat was dying, so I really wasn’t feeling up to lots of partying and such, but we had my parents come over to hang out with us and watch the fireworks in our back yard!Fire!I apparently …

Here are some pictures (like, MAJOR picture overload!) from the day we finally met our sweet son:dannnng … I think he was ready to come out!waiting in the prep areamy wonderful doctor stopping by to make sure everything was good to go & I felt ok…

Maria began her session indoors at our studio. In this image, she is modeling a lovely dress she made herself.  We gelled a backdrop to a compatible color to her clothing: Heading to the beach, we had just a short time to see the sun sneak be…

The Erie Admirals Soccer Club are all smiles as they clinch their division and advance to the Northeast Championship.

I’m always trying to get my sites to run faster, not only does it make the user experience better, it’s something that Google pays attention to in rankings. If you’re working in a LAMP environment, one way to optimize your site that’s often overlooked it working with MySQL to try to get as much performance [...]

Some people have it, some people don’t.That is very evident now that I’m living back in the north. This was one good part about living in the south. They take their customer service seriously!Then you move back to the north and I swear, most people i…

[Note: This story was inspired by a particularly annoying encounter with a door-to-door salesman.  The depictions of the afterlife found in this story are fictionalized.] Sam was a traveling salesman with a promising future, except for one problem. You know the joke about the traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughter?  Well, in this case, the [...]

Hello everyone!  Just was playing around and wanted to update my blog design.  I picket this template from The Cutest Blog On The Block website.  I wanted a clean, fresh look to my blog and thought this would be perfect.  Being comp…

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to introduce our son Miles:Our hearts are full and beyond blessed. We couldn’t be happier to welcome this joy to the family! We love you Miles Benjamin!

The USPS may be closing post offices around the country. Are we on the list?

Hello everyone!  Hope your week is going well so far!  I just wanted to share with you a card I made for my little cousin.  She turned “7″ and I just wanted to make a little card for her to highlight the event.  I love this new colo…

We had another perfect summer evening for senior portraits.Mary started with some interesting images including her Dad’s F150 truck. Then we moved to several different areas, ending at the beach, arriving just before sunset.Here are a few images from M…

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Just an update on the world of bad politics in Lorain.Last Monday, Mr. Goldberg called me to give me an update. Per Mr. Goldberg, bids have come in on the demolition of the burned out house across the street and one of the bids has been accepted by th…

Headline talent includes Campbell Brothers & Holly Hofmann/Mike Wofford Quartet

I am so excited to announce our first ever giveaway.  Rob & Sue Wallace have created the ultimate Michigan Lighthouse App for iPhone, iPod or iPad.

“With 3,126 miles of coastline, Michigan has over 120 lighthouses to see and they are all incl…

Perfect weather for senior portraits tonight. Deep blue skies, 80 degrees, a nice breeze, and no hint of the rain that pounded us earlier today.Rebecca started in the studio. We captured some really nice indoor images. The first was against a plain bla…