Family Portrait Season is among us and even though I'm a part time Cincinnati resident now, I can still come to you Nashville, and reek havoc all over your backyard. Ha! It's funny because creating art with a really nice family and their kiddos and little critters is so rewarding. Kids are real. They give you what they give you and capturing that is like therapy, quite frankly. They remind me not to take life so seriously.
What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...








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