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Since the slow of the wedding season my efforts have been diverted my other projects. We’re making headway again on Lion in the Street post-production, and I’ve spent an afternoon experimenting with light at Your Shooting Space in Chicago this month. Both I hope to blog about coming up. But this week’s winter storm brought a welcome day of pure photographic fun and adventure. Stories of perilous commutes and hours of shoveling are echoing each other across the web today, and I thought I’d add to the tapestry with a few photographs of the aftermath in the Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park. Once the last band of snow and wind lifted from the city, a photog buddy andRead More →

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 Though the logical benefits are many, I have to say that I think what is compelling me lately is just the simple joy I get from biking. Every time I get on my bike, without fail, my mood is elevated. Riding my bike makes me feel like I’m 12 years old. I feel like how Phoebe runs in that one Friends episode – like a kid. After rediscovering biking last summer and then participating in Bike the Drive this May with my family, last week for the first time ever I biked to work. Last week was Bike to Work week in Chicago, and IRead More →

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Every year on Memorial Day weekend Chicago closes Lake Shore Drive to traffic and opens it for about 5 hours to cyclists only. More than 20,000 riders participate in the 30-mile event. My dad and I participated in the 2010 Bike the Drive event to kick off the summer and celebrate my birthday this weekend. Mom snapped pictures. We rode the north half of the route. Entering Lake Shore Drive at the North Ave ramp, surrounded by thousands of cyclists, at the foot of the Chicago skyline… an awesome event and a gorgeous weekend! Hope you are all enjoying this holiday weekend with the ones you love and remembering thoseRead More →

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This fall I started a new day-job opportunity with the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association. I thought this seasonal post would be a fun way to introduce the work I am doing there. I started there in September as the Manager of Communications overseeing marketing communications strategy and implementation, and non-serial publications for the division. After working with Chicago Public Schools last year, I am again really proud to work with a great team of staff at AASL serving a membership that helps facilitate student education through information literacy and development of 21st-century skills. For our company holiday partyRead More →

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I just returned from sharing the holidays with my family in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and dropped my brother at the airport for his trip back to Tulsa. He flew up to Chicago this year and hitched with me for the long drive north. I don’t get to see Tom all that often, so having the extra time in the car and at my apartment together was nice. And though time with my family has always been special to me, I give special thanks for it again this year. You often hear people groan a little at the holidays about family. I understand, families are eccentricRead More →