Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Feb 7, 2012, 3:26 pm
I just heard on the radio this morning, this is the warmest winter here in 80 years. I swear, odd weather follows me. But, this is one of the few times when the odd behavior has been in my favor. Not, like I would notice, I'm always working on something. Isn't it funny how when you are busy, you ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Feb 1, 2012, 7:19 pm
I'm a busy bee. So, if I haven't responded to you, don't worry you're on the list. xx
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jan 28, 2012, 10:59 am
State Street. Chicago.Have you noticed that occasionally I watermark my photos? I hate to do it. It ruins the whole aesthetic of the photo but I have begun to dabble in the world of stock photography and while I never imagined selling my photos to big advertising companies, the income is needed. S...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jan 22, 2012, 3:59 pm
When I was young, my favorite thing to do in the winter was to go to Lake Michigan. I lived three blocks from the water, so it was a simple jaunt. The wind howls and cuts your face with much more intensity down at the lake, which is great because it means that this piece of land that's flooded  wit...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 31, 2011, 10:53 am
Since it's Halloween, I thought I'd post a picture of my favorite costume. This is Java, she's French. And she was dressed as a bubble bee. If your in Chicago and adore France and French products or just want to talk to a sweet French girl and her adorable shop dog, head to Autrepart in Lincoln Pa...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 26, 2011, 10:00 pm
As my world is being open up to typography, I stumbled upon this quote from Matthew Carter, a type designer:  "You have to find the fascination greater than the frustration." Which is exactly how I am feeling when it comes to web development. Some moments, I get so pissed off that I can't figure ou...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 25, 2011, 11:47 am
What perfect weather we had, taking photos on Sunday. The weather man said it was gonna rain, but we lucked out. I adore the autumn light. Isn't it just gorgeous? As well as my highly photogenic subjects! I would die to be this photogenic! I am the least photogenic person ever, the pics you see wit...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 22, 2011, 6:57 pm
So, I have been living in my native Chicago a few weeks now. For the last 15 years, I would come home for holidays and hermit and moan about the cold, gorging myself on salty mixed nuts, wine and lattes and never go out. Well, moving back is way different than visiting, I am out and about in the cit...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 19, 2011, 11:00 pm
A whole new world has open up to me. I always sorta got that type was important but never knew just how much distinction there was in a font. For example, my design teacher totally made fun of me for using the Hobo font. I must claim ignorance. Note to self: never again use a font with a trendy nam...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 17, 2011, 9:11 pm
So, I was on the train home today and we were all packed in like sardines, invading each others personal space. To my left stood a young couple, cooing all over each other. They must have been in high school. Personally, I found their affection annoying. I mean, he was pawing all over her in total i...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 15, 2011, 3:11 pm
I gotta thank my best friend and her brother for making this first show possible. Dani endured a lot of driving to the South side to make this happen. Nate, the other artist, did an amazing job setting up. I had no idea that it was possible to make the space look like a full on gallery.  I'd forget...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 13, 2011, 10:36 am
... photography show. He showed me tons of ways to print and hang (if only I had met him a month ago.) Here are some things I have come across this week: An AWESOMELY creative website. Here's a behind the scenes article of how it was made for all you tech geeks. Here's an article for all you PB...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 10, 2011, 10:29 am
I almost burned down my apartment this afternoon. See, my oven doesn’t work, so I have been using a toaster oven but I don’t have pan or tin foil. So, I just put a piece of lamb shoulder on the rack and well, with all that fat, the thing flamed up. I stood there like an idiot. Do I pour water ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 7, 2011, 2:45 pm
The light has been amazing as of late. With an amazingly full plate these days, I must find time to relish in the autumn light and take a few afternoons to wander with no agenda.
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 4, 2011, 1:30 pm
You are going to be seeing pictures of my apartment for a long time because I am completely in love with it. I had no idea how much fun settling could be!! I have always been too cheap to invest in anything, ever. I always counted dollars as days spent living in SE Asia. Like the dresser I bought, t...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Oct 2, 2011, 12:42 pm
amazing light // love the old radiators Since we have last talked, I have moved into my apartment here in Chicago. It’s funny, how all I want is to live way out in the country, where your nearest neighbor is miles and miles away and for me it is hard to get there yet moving to this big city is n...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 27, 2011, 2:13 pm
I have been going through my stored boxes at my dads house and came across a some CDs with pictures from my travels, back in the day when photos weren't uploaded or blogged.  In 2005, I hopped a train from Kunming and took it to a small town in the Hunan province to study Traditional Chinese Medici...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 25, 2011, 1:30 pm
In 2007, I had met a girl while I was living in Limousin, France who worked in Paris at Shakespeare and Company, the American book shop that let's writers sleep in the shop in exchange for work in the shop and an agreement that they will write an autobiography. George Whitman established it in 195...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 23, 2011, 9:26 pm
... his stories of love and loss, living in India on a commune for two years and now finishing up his degree in Chemistry while launching his soap business-- I felt elated and proud to have such great friends who are, and always have been, curious.  That is what we are, my community that I grew u...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 20, 2011, 5:04 pm
How do you like my new ride? It makes me feel like a French girl. Riding around town, going to coffee shops to edit photos. It all makes Chicago all the more quaint.  I had a low light photo gig last night and took a lot of photos which need lots of attention. Low light is hard. I prefer the use of...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 18, 2011, 3:38 pm
... chair that I found for $5 dollars. And apparently, apartment therapy thinks they're ... 75. How perfect. He lived practically across the street. I wandered into his garage ... what I was looking for in terms of sport but it was cute and ... like some sort of character on a mythical adven...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 16, 2011, 1:25 pm
This image brought back all the good memories of growing up in  Chicago. People of all sorts, doing all sorts of random cool things. Walking back from dinner in Pilsen last night, we could hear the opera music fill the air and this was what was around the corner, on the street. So, random. Such a n...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 14, 2011, 9:59 am
Congratulations Nick and Karen!! 
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 13, 2011, 10:07 am
Now let's get to Indiana. Growing up, us city folk made fun of Indiana. It's country roads, flat lands, and pasture as far as the eye can see.  I should have just gone there to realize, they were all full of it for there are elements of Indiana that remind me of my beloved France. It's a place, ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 11, 2011, 11:35 am
Here's a few more Michigan pictures for you. Isn't that produce just lovely?? The peaches were just divine and oh so juicy. Last night, my younger step brother got married. I see now why people love weddings as it is the only time in your adult life that you get together with family and friends to l...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 9, 2011, 1:44 pm
I think I was like 12 the last time I was in Michigan. It's funny, for a gal that travels far, I never ventured out of Chicago growing up. Maybe I would have never seeked out far off mountains, rivers and oceans had I just left the boundaries of the big city. Michigan was gorgeous. We drove way u...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Sep 8, 2011, 5:04 pm
foggy Northern Michigan Just returned to the big city from a lovely time in Northern Michigan and Indiana. It always amazes me how quiet a mind can be in open spaces. I didn't even know I needed a break from the city until I was there peacefully reading in the breeze, not an anxious thought entered...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 31, 2011, 7:35 pm
Piedmont Park // Atlanta, GeorgiaI just thought I'd post a picture as I sit here listening to the cicadas and the crickets play in symphony. Do you remember when I brought you home to the midwest, my dear, for your first time? Their sound terrified you, to me they blended in as white noise but you, ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 28, 2011, 10:14 pm
Someone once told me I was a "connector". These people are crucial to society. They connect people, places and ideas. They are often transient and very helpful to others through their worldly connections and experiences. Sounds about right. So, it's not all that strange to me to meet someone in Camb...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 28, 2011, 9:45 am
Thanks for the encouraging words, friends! Perhaps, it's my own worries and concerns that has me sensitive to criticism. I am a bit of a worry wort. But, your support brings be back to reality. That it will be all good, no matter, the road is life. I started a Tumblr and on it I have found this one ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 26, 2011, 3:59 pm
It's funny, people and their opinions. People knowing that they are right. Or when people like to squash your goals. I have been hearing a lot of "Oh, that is hard. That will never work. Why are you going to do that?" Others opinions matter to me. People have experienced life so differently than I h...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 21, 2011, 5:51 pm
It is said, almost like an old legend, of some sort, that all from this town who where born here shall return. I thought I was one of the few who wouldn't come back to this Chicago area town and it just sort of snuck up on me and here I am riding bikes around the old hood like I was a kid again. I ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 20, 2011, 3:48 pm
I love this, it feels so Harry Potter. I am taking magic potions and they totally work. I love the descriptions, "encourages a peaceful and calm mind when thoughts and worries go round and round in your head." And I find this one particularly fitting, it is suppose to cure me of my wanderlust: "he...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 18, 2011, 9:34 pm
Well, I tell you, there is no excuse to feel bored here in Chicago. It's more like overstimulated. But, it's all good. I'm rolling with it. It's true, I was born and raised a city girl, a midwestern girl but I have been in some pretty amazing, rural spots in the last 15 years. My first instinct is t...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 14, 2011, 2:25 pm
What a day to fly into Chicago! I'm super blessed and grateful for my friend who is a pilot and has hooked me up with flights on this whole school finding process. She really helped quell some anxiety of spending hundreds of bucks in this unemployed-about-to-be- a-broke-ass student mental state I am...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 12, 2011, 10:27 am
Boulder, Colorado has always been a favorite. Memories of fun times I had with good friends bounced back as I wandered around the European like streets of Boulder. I say European because all the people are out enjoying the well put together public space, the way groups of friends would gather for a ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 10, 2011, 1:02 pm
I was really impressed with how coordinated these couples were. Made me want to take up line dancing.
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 10, 2011, 12:29 am
When I was twenty two I met a teacher who talked of how his first goal in life was to be successful and move to Hawaii. Which he did. He was a doctor and bought a beautiful house over looking the ocean but after time, even with the beauty outside his door, he wasn't happy. He wanted more. He left it...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 5, 2011, 9:29 pm
I think I have been nominated only once before to do one of those fun blog activities that bloggers frequently participate in and my friend Andi over at her fabulous web site, Misadventures with Andi, nominated me to join in the fun in 7 links, in which you big the 7 links as follows: My most beau...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Aug 3, 2011, 9:52 pm
With the addition of a new computer (yea! Mac!), new programs (yea! Creative Suite!) and working on getting school-ready, image might just be taking over for word. I have been so focused on teaching myself all these programs (CS5 and a new operating system) and learning to code that my brain feels l...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 31, 2011, 7:22 pm
We came to the mountains of Colorado often as a kid. About two days after visits in Denver with my grandmother, I would grow restless in anticipation to get up to the mountains, we would head on what seemed like the longest ride ever to Vail. I remember vividly, staring at all the miners cabins perc...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 31, 2011, 9:25 am
Did I say I was going to move to a city? I was already having a panic attack over that one and then I saw the  movie Buck yesterday, a documentary about the real cowboy who was the inspiration behind the Horse Whisperer. When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was ride horses and be in the mountains a...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 30, 2011, 10:51 am
Good morning friends! How have you been? Is summer (or winter for you all in the Southern Hemisphere) treating you well? It's been years since I have experienced the true heat of summer for my summers in coastal Alaska, central France and the northern mountains of Spain were far from hot. I always...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 28, 2011, 9:57 am
{This old wooden water tower makes me think of Kerouac up there on desolation peak}{mom}{my standby uniform for the great outdoors}{i love this photo, taken in a small farming town near  South Park, Colorado} Here's a list of some cool stuff that has crossed my path: Kinfolk Magazine Borrow Lenses ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 25, 2011, 12:00 am
These are my favorite shots from last week spent in the mountains. We drove over a pass and in search of pasture as my favorite subject is farm life but just as we arrived, the rain came. Every shot was rushed and hurried as to not get wet but it was all worth it just to capture these colors. I thi...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 23, 2011, 5:54 pm
The trail is found via iPhone goodness. We navigate, twistand turn up gravel roads, arriving at a destination that is just another one ofthose spots that could be “the top of the world.” Gorgeous. I breathe deep. The air is cold and crisp, the view is infiniteand alluring. A want comes over me...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 21, 2011, 4:53 pm
1. Spruce Creek trail, followed the water fall the whole way up! 2. invincible in my hiking boots 3. not the mushrooms I ate 4.the view1. dew 2. h2o levels are extraordinarily high right now 3. mist 4. one tree down by those retched beetles "Your so much more content out here," Ma says. It's true. ...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 20, 2011, 6:49 pm
"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running--that's the way to live."- The Dharma Bums 
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 12, 2011, 10:57 am
Chicago kicks ass in the summer. It's like a million times better than the rest of the year. People everywhere. Families having picnics and parties by the beach. Fresh produce everywhere. Street festivals and cute outfits. Smiling faces. Every step I take brings back a childhood memory. Especiall...
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Lacey B. posted an article on The Road is Life - Jul 11, 2011, 11:47 am
Here's a couple more shots from Atlanta that I liked. I liked Atlanta. A lot. I was there checking out portfolio schools and their programs in design, web development and photography and basically I am thrilled about what I saw. I felt like I was with my people. You know, the types who go to the bo...
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