The Life in My Years

An anthology of life

juxtapositionnounjux·​ta·​po·​si·​tion ˌjək-stə-pə-ˈzi-shən : the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect. This week Patti challenges us to find images that invite the viewer to weigh objects in a photo against each other. Banner photo: The juxtaposition of colors …

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Warning: Graphic and disturbing content. Nick Fuentes posed the word problem on a podcast in 2019. “If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies and Cookie Monster has fifteen ovens working 24 hours a day for five years, how long does it take Cookie Monster to make six million batches of cookies?” …

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Tina of Travels and Trifles is one of the hosts for this week’s challenge. It’s been a minute since I’ve participated in the Len-Artists series. Probably closer to 525600 minutes and mostly due to the economics of not wanting to pay WordPress for the extra space to accommodate photos. But being partial to all of …

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The year 2024 marked a change in this site, as I veered away from photo blogs. It wasn’t so much that I set the camera aside and lost interest in photography. It was more a function of WordPress affordability and not wanting to shell out the $$$ to support photo blogs. It was also a …

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“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”~ Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Kraków. It’s old. Fourth century old. Put in American perspective, because for Americans it’s always about America, Krakow was the capital of Poland five centuries before a European landed in what would later be the United …

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