I used to be a sleep walker. For a while I was terrified of falling asleep because I was afraid I would jump out the window. Now my subconscious is apparently too old and lazy to stir my body out of bed, and I’ve become a sleep writer. I’ve been sleep writing for about 6-7 years now, though I do have a few samples that date back to my undergrad ( Read more... )

I signed up for a couple of photography classes at Stanford for spring quarter. They start in April. I was amazed that it was much cheaper and easier to enroll at Stanford than to take a class at the state university where I work! It’s so disappointing that employees are surrounded by all this knowledge and education, sponsored by the state, but ( Read more... )

I finally decided to start posting content on my “official” blog, missguidance.com, a few months ago. I created the site back in 2010 and wanted to wait until I had enough content accumulated so that I could post without the stress of worrying about what to come up with next , but then I realized that was never going to happen to my satisfaction ( Read more... )

The randomness that has been keeping me engaged lately:

Carolyn Casey’s Winter Solstice broadcastHer solstice talks do reiterate the same concepts, the main one being the “composting” of the year’s bad juju (though it could ongoing bad juju such as war and poverty). The mantra is “the longest night, the wheel is turning, what shall we give to the ( Read more... )

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I have to say, I'm annoyed with the ads that YouTube now seems to place on my videos without my permission. I don't know how to disable them and YouTube won't let me change the license agreement to public commons.

It seems that every time I log into YouTube and Facebook, there is some new feature that prevents users from controling their

The weather at the coast was phenomenal this weekend, with stunning clear views and the deep jewel tones of a California fall. Behold:


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The castle walls were made of snowdrifts, and the windows and doors of biting winds. There were more than a hundred rooms, all shaped by the drifting snow, and the largest stretched on for several miles. The vast, empty spaces were all lit by the bright Northern lights and looked both glacial and brilliant … The Snow Queen's rooms were immense, ( Read more... )

That’s the title of a strange biopic about Hans Christian Andersen. I don’t care for the movie too much, but I think some of the scenes that shift into depictions of Andersen’s fairy tales as a way of highlighting connections to events in his life have great photographic qualities:

From “The Nightingale”

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“Eternal night continued to envelop us, all unrelieved by the phosphoric sea-brilliancy to which we had been accustomed in the tropics. We observed too, that, although the tempest continued to rage with unabated violence, there was no longer to be discovered the usual appearance of surf, or foam, which had hitherto attended us. All around were ( Read more... )