The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.