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Sometimes I just want to put up a photo and let things go from there.  So that’s what I’m going to do.  

Yesterday afternoon.  I’m walking along the lakefront at Washington Park.  My plans were to capture photos of the ducks and geese and swans and other waterfowl that call the lake home.  I was also testing out my Leica M3 camera, along with a pack of AGFA Scala 200 slide film, so I won’t see the…

Myles Knebel was my brother-in-law from my first marriage.  We didn’t chat much at the time, but I always knew him to be a good person and supportive member of his family. It would be nearly 25 years before we spoke again – and this time, it was through Facebook. It’s 2013, and Facebook’s computer…

I’ve saved prayer cards of those who have completed their journeys upon this earth.  And while I was cleaning out some boxes in my apartment – essentially “spring cleaning” – I came across my mother’s prayer card. Paula Lillian Bragg, eventually Miller, and finally Bailey, would have turned 73 today. What can I say about…

For all the times I’ve watched the circus, I’ve enjoyed a feeling of epic wonder throughout all the performances.  For one great price, I saw trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, lion tamers, clowns, and – if you’ve been to the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus – the parade of elephants.  Elephants that could stand on…

Any time I get an e-mail that says “Chuck Miller – personal,” I automatically associate it with someone trying to either sell me something or to try to swindle me out of something.  You know, Nigerian princes and the like. This time, it was different.  And it brought back memories that I had hoped were…

I have absolutely no idea why people delight in asking me these types of questions. Let’s start with the basics and the history. I was born into, for all that it means, a family with two religions.  My father and his side of the family were Jewish (Conservative Jew, to be more precise); my mother…