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Yesterday I took a trip to Ikea

As I pulled into my parking space I couldn’t help but giggle at the american flag clad bumper sticker on the van next to me in the Ikea parking lot.  It said “Worried about your job? Keep buying foreign.”  I guess that maybe the owner of that bumper sticker is Swedish.

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Our new Hybrid

This June our ’86 mazda Pickup bit the dust. Last Saturday our ’95 Stratus started billowing smoke and died on the side of the freeway. Facing a $1200 (and likely more) repair on a car with 190,000 miles we decided to retire Silvia, our Stratus. My brother-in-law, Jason, mentioned that there is a new kind…

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The other side of Christy’s lens

This is Christy’s image from our shoot-off. I think that it matchs my “full time mom and part time photographer” brand. I’m shooting her big fat 135mm 2.0L lens. It’s a long heavy lens that has little grace for hand shake. I had a lot of blurry images from shooting like this. Yes, it’s November. …

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The origination of a half-decent superstition

Since knocking on wood made the short list of popular superstitions I guess I don’t know what it takes to create a really good one.  But the other day while taking out the trash, or some other benign reason for stepping outside, I looked down and saw this little blue feather on my doorstep.  I…

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