The first nights after September 11, 2001, I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t know anyone who had been killed, and didn’t even have any friends at the time who were there or directly impacted by the attacks of that day. But still, it cut me deep. (My oldest daughter — now 17 years old, and pictured below with the Twin Towers in 1995 — only...

Hey, look what I made! For those few who wanted to see, here are my wisdom teeth — removed on 8/24/11. You can click for a larger version of the pic if you are so inclined. :P As you might be able to see here, two of the teeth came out intact, and the remaining two needed to be cut and chopped and sliced and diced out. I was originally going to be completely...

A puffy little hummingbird, a split second before he flew...

Really like this flower pic — think the colors came out really cool. (These are actually some scrawny oleander flowers that decided to grow on the side of the...

My sister and her kids – and my grandfather – were filmed for a news segment in Normandy, where they were for the 65th anniversary of D-Day! My grandfather was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and jumped from a plane into France on that historic day. On June 6, 1944, American paratrooper Chet Graham parachuted over the French town of Saint-Mére-Eglise...

I love how these actually look like toy trains

Have you ever had someone explain something to you — and you’re grasping it… and then they keep babbling on and on and you lose that little thread of understanding and just end up confused? Well, I have. Years of it, in fact. It was called “high school.” I was reminded of that era by part of an email I just got from Kodak: When will I...