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Life Stories: My First Photography Gig

It is hard for me to tell the entirety of my story in any particular sequence or simple way. I suppose sometimes things kind of speak for themselves, and I can give a summary overview of what I recall of this event and these albums. Summary: According to the date on one of the photos in the albums my mother put together at the end of April 1979 (within two weeks of my father’s death on May 10, 1979) for...

No One Ever Fully Gets the Life They Hoped For

I’m exhausted today likely due to my spontaneous consumption of one dark chocolate holiday truffle eaten around midnight as I shut off the TV and headed to bed, which is about my usual time. It was just laying there on the coffee table next to another wrapped light chocolate ball. I’m highly sensitive to caffeine. I drink a huge double cup of morning coffee and generally won’t drink coffee or any caffeinated beverage after about 2 pm as precaution against...