chookooloonks life list Posts
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4 Jul, 2011chookooloonks life list update: number 11, hand churn ice cream with alex? CHECK.
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So early last month, I gave a talk at the World Domination Summit. As part of my presentation, I talked about my life list, and in giving examples of what was on my list, I mentioned that I wanted to make homemade ice cream with Alex, preferably ...
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24 May, 2011
photograph 1000 faces: molly ringwald
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So now for something exceptionally cool. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I went to Los Angeles for an unexpected project. What I didn't mention was that the project included meeting, interviewing and photographing actor and author Molly ...
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7 Apr, 2011
on becoming a curator
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A little over a year ago, I helped hang photos with a friend who was putting together a photo exhibit at a local gallery. The photographs were the works of many women photographers, and my friend, who had chosen all the images, was now figuring out ...
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24 Feb, 2011
the effect of kindness (see also: chookooloonks life list item #56, try 700 different blends of tea)
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It was Tuesday afternoon, time to get the mail. I walked to our front door, and the first thing I saw was a small package. I'm not expecting a package. I looked at return address: it was from my friend, Tea. I turned the package ...
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30 Jan, 2011
chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the blissdom 2011 edition)
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Last week, after returning from Seattle, I almost immediately turned around and got back on a plane to Nashville, for the Blissdom Conference. It was a whirlwind trip, and I was back in Houston almost as soon as I got there, but I did manage to ...
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5 Jul, 2010
chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the gilligan edition)
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Josh, aka Modern Day Gilligan I don't remember when I first came across Josh -- or, for that matter, when he came across me. I know we first learned of each other several years ago, when Marcus, Alex and I were still living in Trinidad. Josh ...
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2 Jul, 2010
bonus shots -- chookooloonks life list update: number 80, taste 50 types of rum
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When I added item number 80 on my life list, "taste 50 types of rum," my friend Jenifer contacted me. "Dude," she said (or something like it), "have you tried Zaya rum? It's Trinidadian!" "I've never heard of it," I said. "It is the best. ...
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29 Jun, 2010
chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the evo edition, part 2)
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Alli, the creative mind behind Mrs. Fussypants and co-founder of Blissdom As I mentioned yesterday, at EVO this past weekend I was able to photograph some people who I knew would be attending and who I'd been looking forward to photographing. ...
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28 Jun, 2010
monday chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the evo edition, part 1)
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The lovely Jyl, founder of Mom It Forward I'm back from the really spectacular EVO Conference. It was a lot of fun, and not just because I booked a flight in a hot air balloon. I was asked to do the closing keynote along with my friend ...
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