Wearing colors

Once upon a time I believed all the fashion and style guides that said chubby girls looked best in black because it’s slimming. And we all know that slim = beautiful and worthwhile. Lies. Lies that I bought in to for far too many years. My wardrobe used to make it look like I was in mourning. Or goth. While I still have trouble accepting my body as is, I’ve learned that my value doesn’t actually come from where I land on society’s acceptable body scale. It takes years to unlearn all the the thought patterns. They so much deeper than we think. It’s a process, but I’m getting there. Now I wear as much color as I like. Published via Pressgram

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Cruising Main Street

Today started out with a news style interview in a challenging situation — a room with three walls of floor to ceiling windows. The last wall? Floor to ceiling mirrors. Yikes! It was tricky, but we managed to get some good shots. Then I went out to shoot a time lapse of the weekly classic car show for a job this evening. An enjoyable way to close out a busy day. Published via Pressgram

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About time

Last weekend I joined the smartphone club. Coincidentally, the new version of Pressgram is out. Aww yeah! Published via Pressgram

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OMBAC Family Day

Click here for the full gallery. Last Saturday was a rugby double-header for OMBAC Family Day down at the Little Q. It was warm enough to almost feel like summer, and the crowd was sizable for such a lovely day. During halftime of the PRP game, some of the Eagles Sevens players came out and ran a demo for all the kids in the crowd. It was pretty freaking cute. Adorable rugby, who knew? Any time I get to see each of my favorite OMBAC players suit up and get playing time is a win for me, and by that standard Saturday was great (I’ll let you guess who my favorite players are…). In terms of wins and losses, it was more of a mixed bag. The D1 side played well against the first place team, LARC. Unfortunately, the scoreline was not in our favor. Still, OMBAC put out a

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On Marshmallows and Rob Thomas

I saw them as soon as the rounded the corner to the cafe area at the AMC Century City. A group of eleven or so, ranging in age from about 10 years old, to a couple in their 50s. They all dropped their things and began pulling “Neptune High Reunion” t-shirts and lanyards over their heads. Their laughter and easy excitement about being here at the Veronica Mars movie fan event made me smile. Again. The same smile I’d been smiling every time my friends and I spotted a fellow Marshmallow wandering around the mall, killing time in the hours leading up to our screening. One of the women in the group approached our trio, asking if one of us could take a group photo for them. They crowded into the frame, their excitement creating the kind of image I love best — one where the joy of the moment

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