What’s today? Why is Christmas Day! The numbers indicate that next week will be the last week of the year, but seeing as I post on Saturdays, next week will actually be my first post of 2022…if I keep up this blogging habit, that is. So I figured this post will be my year end-extravaganza, list of things that registered in my brain for the year of 2021. The good, the bad the ugly. And so it goes…

1) Getting Vaccinated

2) Surviving the pandemic

3) Traveling to see my family

4) Having a day job that I still enjoy

5) being married to my best friend

6) renting out an art studio space

7) starting my podcast…finally!

8) Tuesday night photo nerds

9) Shooting in the Arizona desert

10) Publishing my work

11) Lomography

12) Picture Perfect Photo lab

13) Santa Fe Improv

14) Sibling Rivalry

15) Goodbye Fellini

16) Fixing my Canon 6D

17) Zines

18) Photo books

19) Encaustics

20) Trump out (though it got ugly)

21) Cafe Da Lat’s #E3

22) The White Plains / Otto Geist

23) Mary and Tito’s

24) Hard seltzer

25) Fresh clams on the half shell

26) The Great British Baking Show

27) Ted Lasso

28) What We Do in the Shadows

29) Succession

30) Daido Moriyama

31) Our postman Gil

32) Licorice Mint tea

33) Freestyle Photo Supply

34) Marvis toothpaste

35) Backyard fire pit

36) Epsom salts

37) Thanksgiving in Durango

38) Blurry photos

39) Getting a booster shot

40) Fluoxitine

41) gummy Vitamin D

42) Ruthie’s Bagels

43) Ihatov

44) Cardamaro

45) Austin Kleon

46) Topo Chico

47) Marfa, Tx

48) Monsoon season

49) Daily journal writing

50) you