Finally made it back late last night from my 23-day sabbatical video/ photo/ hiking journey across the American Southwest. Dodged flash floods in Zion NP that produced rare massive waterfalls. Hiked incredible slot canyons in Utah and New Mexico. Camped in some...

Wow. I just finished this truly inspiring book. It is one of the best artist-biographies I’ve ever read. So thankful I got to read it in the midst of my sabbatical. It gave me loads of ideas. Now I have to spend the next five hours transcribing all the notes I marked...

Today is the first day of school for the new fall semester… and for the first time ever, I’m working at home. It’s so surreal to be on my sabbatical (finally!) while knowing that the CCAD world is going on without me. It’s half humbling… and half liberating. I get to...

I  continued my summer re-education process with taking online Lynda.com training on the foundations of layout and composition. Thanks to Lynda.com, I learn so much clearly when I watch these visual/ audio video tutorials. And I can watch these tutorials each day from...

8-13-14: This evening, my daughter Alyssa and I bonded in a way we never had before: we laid down on our backs together on the grassy backyard, looked straight up at the puffy white clouds above, and went cloud-gazing for a whole 15 minutes! She didn’t want us to stop...

So I spent the entire day doing work from home, which was good to do. I looked at online video tutorials on DSLR cameras. I spent half the day writing up my proposal for taking the Airstream mobile home out on the road with Tom and I. After taking an hour long...

Here is the completely re-edited, revamped, and complete version of “The Holiday House”. It just took me an extra nine months to get more cutaways of all the holiday decorations for the entire year cycle. Enjoy!   https://vimeo.com/71883552

This afternoon, I participated in my first ever “Career Day” presentation to 5th and 6th grade Intermediate Students at a local Columbus school. People from various professions were called in to give three 30-minute presentations about their chosen field. On the...

I received two BIG (albeit positive) news yesterday from CCAD yesterday. I got final approval for taking a sabbatical in Fall 2014. I will utilize this time to enhance my portfolio, work on video freelance opportunities, re-sharpen my teaching skills with reeducating...