Film Archive

I mentioned the other day that I just got a slide scanner. The idea was to archive slides and old negatives and store them in digital format.  I have a number of 35mm slides from childhood family vacations and birthdays. But the overwhelming bulk of my image collection is my own doing. Thus far I have […]

Mining Disaster

Shortly after I started blogging, I wondered how faithful my memory was to actual events of my past. Not that it matters. I am practically the only one left who still remembers anything about those times, so there is no one to contradict me. It was important to me just the same. I lamented that […]

Storage Implies Retrieval

I wanted to write this post about my experience taking my older brother on a vacation. It was an ordeal because he is mentally handicapped, nonverbal and I’ve never been solely responsible for him.  But I could not find the notes I took at the time. That is so frustrating. I find comfort in collecting […]