Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces
13 years ago today we made the best and most important decision of our lives and today, I’d like to commemorate it with a photo. Yup, that’s the face I fell in love with—although highly distorted...
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The theme for week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Possibility. My inspiration for this post is an old coin—a Fuerte (a coin worth five Venezuelan Bolívares)—I picked up years ago. I love the...
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The theme for week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Hidden. As soon as I saw this theme I immediately thought of a Matryoshka—the Russian nesting doll—that my grandmother brought back from Europe...
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This weekend we helped my wife’s sister move into her new home. Instead of unloading boxes and furniture, however, we were brought in to clean the place up. The previous occupants left a hideous mess...
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This week NASA shared a super-duper high resolution image (8000 by 8000 pixels!) of the Earth with the world. In case you missed it, here it is. I feel it ties in perfectly with this week’s WordPress...
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Are you Ready for this week’s the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge? I bet you are. Because I’ve never been more Ready (even if I am a bit late). It must be all the tests I’ve taken over the years, but...
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It’s been quite some time since I last participated in the WordPress Photo Challenge. It’s not that they themes haven’t been inspiring, it’s just that I haven’t been in a photo snapping mood. But this...
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As a self-proclaimed chocolate snob my usual claim is that when the chocolate is really, really good you don’t need to distract from its flavor by junking it up with filler. However, inside each...
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The image below represents all that is wrong in the world. Isn’t it bad enough that we already have “meat” in a can? Do we really need it individually packaged for easy, on-the-go snacking? I weep for...
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When changed (even slightly), many things with which we are familiar can appear very foreign indeed. Take the venerable Kit Kat bar. By all accounts, it’s quite unremarkable—milk chocolate on the...
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