I love serendipity. It gifts me with the most amazing people when I pay attention. I write for Airstream Life Magazine on occasion. And I recently got an email from the editor about a possible story after a photographer sent him some photos. Nice photos. Nice photographer. Great story. But then serendipity stepped in. Being insanely curious I started talking to the photographer (Alison Turner) because, well, I like to hear people’s stories. Turns out Alison likes to live out of her car just like me. She has a house, …

Some time back I wrote about Michelle Gagne and the problems she was having with her Gulfstream trailer (RV). She created a webpage, posted to various social media sites about her problems and did more than just bitch. She backed up her complaints with photos, letters, emails, a calendar and testimony from Gulfstream employees themselves that confirmed to any reasonable person that Gulfstream has SCREWED her and her husband royally - to the tune of MORE than $53,000.
Now she’s starting to get momentum. Other people who are having Gulfstream Trailer …

Hi Jim.
Recently you reached out to me, someone who downloaded your Blurb book software, and asked for my opinion on a survey about your product. I love the software. But the survey didn’t give me anywhere to write about that. I could click radio buttons to indicate an answer and enter myself into your free iPod giveaway, but I really wanted to give you some feedback and tell you how utterly awesome your site is. I’d love to win the iPod, but really I was looking forward to was giving …

It’s not often I find someone both helpful and talented and willing to work with me. But I did today. Jen Fariello at jenfariello.com.
Not only was she efficient, friendly and good at what she does, she was willing to work with me on this shoot - and climb around in the van, brave my dog Koko, and all the stuff that makes a good photographer good. I hate getting in front of a camera. It reminds me I need to be losing weight, and makes me feel like I’m …

Essence Jones wanted to be a boxer since he was two years old.
“I ‘member telling my dad I wanted to box, I liked boxing. I’d say ‘Dad, take me to the gym so I can learn to box,” he said. “But he was all into drugs and alcohol so he never had the time to take me.”
Fifteen years later however Jones found the boxing lessons and opportunity he wanted - in a prison yard. An altercation involving a girlfriend, a friend and a gun brought him eight years of …