I didn’t get the chance to help Cory build new rooms in his Townhome a few years ago, but I did get the chance to help Skyler build a new room in his home. We started this little project on Friday, December 26th, 2025 and we finished with the final […]
I asked Copilot this question: “Are there any stories out there that touch on the concept of a person being so worried or stressed about both the past and the future that they forget to be in the present?” Copilot gave me a nice initial list. I read through the […]
There are countless Beatles songs that people call their favorite, but for me, it’s always been Here Comes The Sun. My connection to it goes back to when I was thirteen, spending weekends at my friend David’s house. David usually woke up before me, and he had a ritual: he’d put […]
Ellie didn’t find her teacher in a university or a therapist’s office. She found her on a park bench, feeding birds and humming softly, as if the world were answering her song. They met on a heavy day. Ellie had just ended a tense phone call with her brother—full of […]
I’ve been reading science fiction novels and watching science fiction movies and tv shows for many, many years. I really like science fiction. I was first introduced to science fiction in Junior High at Wasatch Junior High in Salt Lake City. A fellow student was drawing the medical monitoring device […]
A few years ago, I came across a Photoshop plugin made by Profactions, called “Aquarelleum”. I used it to modify my photos to look like watercolor paintings. I loved that plugin and used it quite extensively. However, I recently upgraded my MacBook and although I was able to reinstall the […]
Just a little jaunt down memory lane with a few of the things from my past. This is a slideshow of the photos I’m keeping on my SmugMug website at StevenRalphImages.com in the “Collections of things” gallery: This slide show doesn’t show the entire description of every photo, so if you want […]
Lisa asked me to photograph the stuff in my office and I finally got around to it. She thinks that it’s an interesting, eclectic collection of tchotchkes. Here’s a slideshow of the photos I’m keeping on my SmugMug website at StevenRalphImages.com in the “Collections of things” gallery: This slide show […]
Lisa subscribes to an email list from “The Art Of Being Human” by Ernest Holm Svendsen. She recently received an interesting email with the title, “Letting Go of ‘Because'” Here is what was included in that email: Dear Lisa, When doing The Work, I often notice how “because” slips into […]
The Pigmy Date Palm in their backyard was taken out the other day, along with many of its fellow plants. Bye, Pigmy Date Palm and its fellow plants! Sandra’s Landscaping, LLC of Las Vegas did an excellent job!
Here are a few quotes that I have collected and a few photos of garden hoses that I have taken. I’m sharing them here because, why not? “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm […]