Travel blog of Holland America Nieuw Statendam – August 2023 by Warren Paul Harris We sailed on the Nieuw Statendam in cabin 5023 during July and August 2023. This stateroom was thoroughly comfortable and we really liked the proximity to the bow. Being on the starboard side is always our favorite location. The shower is…
Happy New Year y’all! I hope 2020 brings you JOY! While you’re in the trenches building your business this year, try to remember it’s the little things that improve your life. Appreciate the beauty around you. Look UP occasionally. Look DOWN too. Some magical minutiae exists around us everywhere. Little things that don’t seem like…
If it sounds too good to be true.. It probably is. I received a text message from “Karl Smith” wanting to work with me. I am always suspicious of text job solicitations. No one legit will approach me that way. The text message: Hello, I’m Karl Smith I saw your portfolio on yelp.com and would like to…
Recently I have discovered some Time and $$$ saving items and I thought I would share them with you. I will add to this over time as I think of other items that have been useful to us. The PoolRX For those of you who have pools and have ever struggled with keeping the water…
We just recently blew in a nice thick layer of insulation in our attic to decrease our energy usage and even out the temperature across the house. Prior to this we have been replacing all our lighting with LED for these reasons. They use less energy They last a lot longer They create almost no…
Or for any other occasion… As a gift – or for yourself, art is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Max Eastman said “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” Why invest in art? Art will not wear…
A growing trend in commercial interior decorating is to have very large prints of your own building / property in a highly stylized format. I recently assembled this gallery from one of my commercial shoots as an example of what I can do for you. This little gallery contains variations on two images of the same lobby.…
You probably didn’t know this even existed, but now that you do, you know you want one. Slinkies have been a favorite toy for kids since the 1940s when Richard James invented them. The original slinky is made of spring steel and measures roughly 2.75″ in diameter. It is a fun example of kinetics for…
I am running a 12 core Mac Pro with 16 gigs of ram, 13TB of internal storage, 4 monitors and the newest updates to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4. Recently I have been searching for cloud-based backup for my massive image library. Bitcasa has been making news with their incredible offer of infinite storage for…
To set appropriate expectations… This is L.O.N.G. So acquire your favorite beverage / snack / lounging attire, get comfortable and cover the kiddies’ eyes and ears, as it is also NOT G-Rated. OK? OK. The reason this blog exists is to help others suffering with similar debilitating and painful spinal conditions. Aside from Scoliosis, there are…