Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am 34 years old, and this is my first year at EWU, albeit I am considered a Junior. Being born in Spokane, I guess you could call me a "Spokanite". When I was fresh out of high school, not knowing what I wanted to be when I "grew up", I joined the Army and travelled all over the place, spending much of my time in Germany. I went everywhere from London to Paris to Rome to Amsterdam to everywhere in between. I think I spent more time traveling than working (or at least it seemed like it at the time). I had a blast.
In 2004 my time was up in the Army, so I moved back to Spokane with my wife and a newborn son, still trying to answer the nagging question of, "who am I and what am I supposed to 'do' for the rest of my life?". So, I got a job in accounting! Yeah, um...
After a couple years of that, I got bored and wasn't happy with myself. I decided to try to go back to school. I tried and failed a few times, going through a few jobs and a bankruptcy in the middle of it all. We thought maybe we were cursed for moving back to Spokane after living in such a heavenly place, so we decided to do something drastic.
In the summer of 2009, we had a huge yard sale, got rid of everything we couldn't fit in the back of our truck and drove across America, ending up in South Carolina. It was a new adventure and a chance to start over fresh. We established ourselves rather quickly, with my wife finding full-time work and I started back up at going to school. Didn't know what I was going to school to become, so I took some classes ranging from psychology, philosophy, and history. I even threw in a few medical classes just to make sure I wasn't meant to be a nurse or a doctor or something. I found out a lot about myself, changed my major about seven times, (even got to travel a little!), but in the meantime our 7 year-old son was missing his grandparents and family back in Spokane.
I figured that I could go to school anywhere, so why not somewhere near Spokane? So we packed up and moved to Cheney in October after a year of being in South Carolina.
Well, this has become more of a story of my life than an introduction, so I will stop there and add another blog post later. Oh man! I just realized I never explained how I finally chose a major. Well, maybe next blog post, if you are still interested by that time.
I am really excited to be a photographer for the Easterner. Photography is something I am passionate about and love to do, and I am ready for fall quarter to arrive and our first issue to hit the stands.
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