Ernestine

My eldest aunt died this morning. I'm kind of upset for my mom who lost her sister-in-law last week, now her sister. Mom was just saying how good she looked and that she had a couple of months. Ernestine died of cancer and told no one even though everyone knew, she was fiesty like that. My grandmother died the same way and I'm really scared for what lies ahead for my mother and for me. My mother is the strongest person I know and it just hurts to watch her watch her strength, her family, the most important thing to her, slip away. I always liked Ernestine, she had this great deep voice and she was crazy, in a good way, like me. I haven't seen her in awhile. I wish I had taken at least one picture of her.

po'trait

fashion

Now that we're athletes...

Alright, so Sam and I ran 2 miles for the first time today. I know, not much to 99% of people out there, but a big deal for us. We a) didn't think we could do it b)didn't quit. So we rock for today.
and done. Now back to being photojournalists.

Distractions

while shooting injured soldiers in another pool.

Lima Foxtrot

Kevin served in Iraq 1.0 and came home on leave where he was shot in a random shooting. He's blind now and was swimming in a pool waiting on scuba lessons at a camp for injured soldiers- more later.

Congrats on the new gig Elissa!!!

photo column

We are really hitting a nice groove with our photo columns. Linda's column (when she posts it) this week is one of our best yet. Hopefully, we can start seeing images/stories like that take over the norm so we can start challenging readers with people and stories that they are not used to seeing but should be seeing whether they like it or not. Check out Michelle's last column and the negative comments for it. All 4 of you have seen this already, so here's the color version. Also, here's the commercial for the My Buddy doll that Mr. Burts is holding. I didn't realize those things are like 20 years old and still creepy looking. (Although the way he interacts with the doll makes the doll not so bad.)

I'm cranky

It's been a rough week for me this week partly because I've had to drive to UA two days in a row to for an assignment, a bad one at that. While there, I got stuck in a parking deck that only takes $3 in exact change. Don't get me started...