Archive for April, 2009

“That’s what you get for taking a few months off,” Simon said while standing in the door frame of his pick up. My first foray into blogging brought me to Indy CrossFit in late 2007 and I worked out there two to three times a week throughout most of 2008. His comment typifies the kind [...]

While I am still baffled by the company’s poor communication with its customers, the rest of my Seeds of Change order arrived yesterday. Sort of. At the end of my packing slips I saw that one of the back ordered items were cancelled. Again, no communication or warning, just an addendum to the order after [...]

I want to grow food. I’ve experimented with small garden plots with varying degrees of success but my wife and I bought a house last summer with a back yard big enough for one large vegetable garden, a small fruit grove, grape vines and berry bushes. And I have designs on planting all of that [...]

“This is a business of happiness,” Dave Colt says while sipping a beer he crafted. “What you do here is going to change someone’s life today. There is someone having a shitty day and all they can think about is five o’clock, coming here and drinking a beer that they love.”
Colt, the head brewer [...]

A surprising number of human cultures once believed (or maybe still believe) that cameras steal the soul. I used to laugh at the idea until I started shooting video for a living and found myself describing what I do as “capturing someone’s soul on tape.” This statement, like my belief in the soul, is figurative. [...]