meet Emma

Meet my dog Emma. She's a 3 and a half year old golden retriever with quite the personality. This is her after we took a swim in Lake Travis on Saturday. She can swim pretty well, but she gets winded after about 10 minutes.

and I entered the void..

So this will be my first of many posts. Until now I have hesitated exposing my inner thoughts on such a wide and scary medium as the internet. But I really think that no one is going to find this blog without my explicit directions anyway, so I'm not too worried. I feel like we have become a culture of exhibitionists, putting up information about ourselves for no one and anyone. In this regard, I have decided to make a concerted effort to write this in a way that would be clear to those who know me, and might be confusing to those who do not. If you are in the latter catagory, I apologize; I might simply suggest you follow along long enough to put the pieces together.

First and foremost I think this space will be occupied with photos. I guess you could call it a photo blog. One of my newest interests is photography, and I have just acquired a camera that, god-willing, will help me capture those moments that linger in my mind but lack physical evidence. We'll see how it all goes...

I took these photos in St. Louis this past weekend;

'keith' by Chuck Close