New York 2016
Family trip up to New York during Labor Day Weekend. Visited Green Lakes State Park, the New York State Fair, and Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
Dempsey - 5 years 10 months
Felix - 4 years 5 months
Katalina - 3 years 3 months
Billie - 1 year 8 months
Alex, Kyleigh & Me - Our video from the day trip to Enchanted Forest!
Enchanted Forest Water Safari, where the fun never stops! Video clips from our day vacation trip to the water park in Old Forge, NY! Alex, Kyleigh & Me!
The Passerby in Old Forge, NY (Timelapse)
This is a timelapse I shot of the pedestrians outside of Souvenir Village in Old Forge, NY (in the Adirondacks). Believe it or not, it was a relatively calm day.
Date Filmed: September 7th, 2015
Filmed with a Sony AS100V Action Cam
Edited using Windows Movie Maker
Town Center in Old Forge, NY (Timelapse)
This is a timelapse I shot in the center of town in Old Forge, NY (in the Adirondacks). It was a beautiful, but relatively quiet day compared to the hustle and bustle that usually fills the town. Maybe it was too early?
Date Filmed: September 5th, 2015
Filmed with a Sony AS100V Action Cam
Edited using Windows Movie Maker
First ride of 2014 - Old Forge, NY
First ride of the 2014 snowmobiling season in Old Forge, NY.
Garnet Hill Lodge | Adirondack Commercial Real Estate
Garnet Hill Lodge is a 270 acre resort complex consisting of the Main Lodge known as the “Loghouse” with 16 guest rooms, large formal restaurant, new bar, entertainment area, gift shop, and porches. This is the premier cross country ski center and mountain resort in the Adirondack Park and in the entire Northeastern United States, with over 25 miles on contiguous and professionally groomed ski trails.
Live Coverage of John Glenn Memorial
NASA Television covered The Ohio State University’s public celebration of John Glenn’s life on Dec. 17, at the university’s Mershon Auditorium. The former NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator passed away Dec. 8 at the age of 95. Glenn, a decorated U.S. marine, was the first American to orbit Earth and, much later in life, became the oldest person to travel to space. Glenn was a longtime supporter of Ohio State and its students. He was a University Honors Distinguished Fellow, chaired the college’s board of directors, and was an adjunct professor in both the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Management.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)