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Two Challenges (opens the original)
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Sep 21CHALLENGE 1: Do not view the world through my iPhone.My father was an avid photographer. Early in their marriage, my mother and he owned a photography studio in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, the town where I was born. I have myriad photos of me because back then in the days of Kodachrome, I was a convenient model when they had a few frames left on the roll.I blame this early introduction for my obsession for photography. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, when I went to camp at ten years old.
Fire! (opens the original)
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Fire!Aug 25Writing a memoir is as much about which stories to leave out as what needs to stay. Here’s a story that didn’t make the cut:I loved Colorado. My family moved there from Texas when I was six. Goodbye to the flat Texas Panhandle. Goodbye to Amarillo air raid sirens wailing tornado warnings. Now when my brother Paul and I played, the Rocky Mountains shone in the distance. The air was dry and crisp, not heavy with humidity. We settled in Wheat Ridge, a suburb west of Denver.<div class="su
Family Stories (opens the original)
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Jul 30I’m always excited when my friend Andrea Eschen’s Substack Building Modern Chicago plops into my inbox. Andrea writes about her great-grandfather Victor Falkenau and the part he played in helping build modern Chicago. Falkenau was an important contractor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He worked with famous architects such as Louis Sullivan and his family was prominent in Chicago society. Every time I read Andrea’s posts, I learn something new about my hometown.<div class="
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