UPDATE: first week on the NYTimes bestseller list! Many months ago, I got a sneak peek at Stop Getting Ripped Off: Why Consumers Get Screwed And How You Can Always Get A Fair Deal when it was still in draft form. I read it in three-point type on my iPhone while on vacation — something…
I’ve read a LOT of photography books in the last few years. I’m embarrassed to say that I thought all along I had to be a great photographer to run this photo business. My goal for 2008 is to know exactly where my money is, where it’s going and how to best to run this…
[UPDATE] No. 13 on the New York Times bestsellers list is “Gotcha Capitalism”! I got an email today from author Bob Sullivan telling me he was on a radio show the other day with Louie Free, who complimented him on the author photo that I took (Louie Free must’ve liked it, he put it on…
These are some of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken with my Holga, Sea World Orlando and Aruba, two of our family vacations in 2006. My Nikon gear is generally banned by my husband and children from family vacations. Sometimes expensive gear just gets on everyone’s nerves, but mostly it’s what I’ve learned from some…
My schedule this week is like a jigsaw puzzle; it all fits together perfectly, but very, very tightly and with no wiggle room for errors. Today was tight partly because this morning, the lovely ladies from my Kappa bookclub met at the Patrick Henry Library in Vienna (we meet somewhere new in Northern Virginia each…
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Last night I dreamed in code. It went something like this: $conf['mod_rewrite'] = true; // If mod_rewrite is true above // set appendage (helps search engines). $conf['mod_rewrite_image_suffix'] = ‘.php’; It’s common for me to have vivid and memorable dreams, but it’s less common for the language I dream in to be programming language. In fact,…
On the shelf above my PowerBook that houses the books that have changed me, Elie Wiesel’s “Night” sits prominently in the center. Mr. Wiesel took a most intolerable tale of mankind, certainly the most incomprehensible of modern time, and artfully wove it into the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. If you have yet to…
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