A quote from "The Audacity of Hope" by Barak Obama I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy.... In this slow, fitful process of sorting out what I believed, I began silently registering the point in dorm-room conversation when my college friends …

"Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?" he said with disgust. "We're overly interested in having a celebrity culture. Anna Nicole Smith -- who cares? Princess Di, OJ. They're all cultural favorites that TV news has found an audience for." -- Brian Lamb

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” -- Paulo Coelho

Somewhere around the world someone would love to have my first world problems. --Matt Good

I get to say whatever I want on my own turf, and suffer the consequences all by myself, including you ignoring me. If you don’t like that, you get to go start your own weblog and say whatever you want on your own turf, and suffer the consequences all by yourself, including me ignoring you. --Mark …

This is one of the things I enjoy about photography is that we all bring our own baggage to the table with us when we view photos. Our photos, like our children, take on lives of their own once we release them to the world. It is up to us as the creator (or parent if …

One thing that I was worried about was that riding would cease to be fun. Delightfully, this never happened. Admittedly, riding does feel like work these days, but I still derive pleasure from it. And no matter how gruelling my day, when the time finally rolls around to call in "see you tomorrow" and turn off …