Rome is a ghost town in August.  From about the 12th until the end of the month everyone gets out of town leaving it, well, perfect!  I can run by many of the monuments on the hill and not see anyone - A moment I crave all year long.  Wh...

 


   
         
 

After a week of nightmares chock-full-of-self-doubt and cryptic Freudian denotations I finally finished my first 5k in 365 days...alive!  The Race for the Cure in Rome had 40,000 participants this year and I spent at least as many seconds dre...

I remember watching our black lab sleep when I was a kid and giggling when her legs would twitch in the midst of some elaborate dog dream.  She was chasing a pheasant or mailman or playing with us kids or swimming in the stream near our house...

I'm moving out of my apartment in a few weeks to go and live elsewhere and have decided to record the memory of my room with a qvtr movie....It's always nice to change it up but now I'll never forget my surroundings with this digita...

I came to Rome in 2003 after some time in Portland.  I never once got sick of the rain when I lived there and I can't explain why.  I used to love going out in the rain to go for a run...(it always made me feel like a bit of a ...