Bye Ball!

When my brother was little he used to say to the setting sun, “Bye ball!”. We’ve had a very foggy week here in Seattle, but Tuesday night it burned off before this beautiful sunset. I was at the Columbia Tower Club shooting some Seattle CEO’s at a gathering for the Puget Sound Business Journal.  I […]

The Small, (relatively) Unknown World of Competitive Roller Skating

I spent much of my late 70’s childhood in roller skating rinks. The musty, rubbery scent of the floor, the dizzying spell of the disco ball and the sounds of Rick James and Donna Summer blasting during a blur of pre-teen fun was something I never forgot.   So a few years ago I decided […]

From Above and Below

The other day on a flight bound for Texas, I struck up a conversation with my neighbor just before landing for a layover in San Francisco.  He told me tales of his life as a “human lab rat”, basically making his living testing drugs for other humans in labs around the country.  As the pilot […]