Okay, so as with most things, there is a good side and a bad side to everything:  the good news is that I've gotten a beautiful new site that I think is just fabulous and cannot wait to go live with.  The bad news is that with the beautiful new site comes having to move everything over from the old site- including a few years worth of blog posts.

Since the entries from the old site are from many moons ago anyhow, I figure I'm going to start fresh- every day or so adding a photo and the story behind it... which leads me to:

A few months ago, when I started the process of designing a new blog site, I asked an amazingly talented friend of mine, Jonathon Ziegelman, if he would shoot a crazy, different, cool picture of me to use as the 'hey, look at me!' photo for the site and blog.  As always, signed, sealed, delivered: