Category Archives: Hundred Day Diary

Day 40 of 100, Denmark to Germany on the train I started writing this one almost 2 weeks ago, flashing by fields, towns, stations, borders, on our way from Denmark to Germany for the second time. Family calls, and the train journey soothes. Over the past week and a bit, I’ve been adding and adding…More

Day 30 of 100, Nordjylland, Denmark One from October 2014, Snake River lookout in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: I’ve wanted to see these mountains since i can remember. It was c-c-cold when the sun hit the peaks, and we were all alone, the legions of other photographers having left the lookout earlier. I’ve loved…More

Day 38 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark I really, really, enjoy visiting Flemming’s father, who lives in in the northern part of the Jutland peninsula of Denmark (“Nordjylland” lends itself to the region, lingual inflection, and identity). He’s the only person I know who lives in a real rural setting, which for me is a house…More

Day 37 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark Yesterday’s post ended with “it’s the happening that makes all the difference.” I went through a long period after my father died three years ago, not being able to write. Not blog posts, not essays, barely in my journal, and not in an everyday capacity either. I never had…More

Day 36 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark I drank my coffee this morning, watching a cumulonimbus stratifying in the distance, in the pink hue of the morning. I’m not normally awake at dawn, being of the late night variety, but in the rare instance this happens, I tell myself “I must do this more often.” I…More

Day 35 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark I was trapped indoors all of yesterday by the gloom and drizzle, which I expect in Denmark at this time of the year. The last time we were here in Jutland, it was October, and grey the entire time. I was half asleep the entire time. So I wasn’t…More

Day 34 of 100, Nordjylland, Danmark I’ve been invited to be a small part of a new project launching in a couple of months, which involves discussing image backstory. I’ve agreed to it as a challenge. I find it difficult to speak cogently about my own work, connecting the threads of one image to my…More

Day 33 of 100, Northern Jutland, Denmark I’ve been enjoying writing these blog posts on paper. They flow unhindered on paper, unlike when I try and type them and am assaulted by digital monkeys in my head, which means I spend about 4500% less time writing them slowly with a pen, than when I do…More

Day 32 of 100, Northern Jutland, Denmark I wonder what will become of this hundred day diary. Or rather, what will come after it. A hundred days of haiku? You’d like that wouldn’t you, the 3 of you that read this thing? In the icy country A city slicker freezes Not dressed for winter It…More

Day 31 of 100, Germany to Denmark Back on the train again, heading up to the cold. I spent hours making pictures of Flemming when we rolled under cloud cover. I like a sunny day as much as the next person, especially now when I freeze out of doors, but ermagherd, these sodden, drizzly grey…More

Day 30 of 100, Hannover, Germany They loved the pictures, which I am so, so happy about. My work is done.More

Day 29 of 100, Hannover, Germany Everyone worked today, tapping, talking and tinkering away on assorted devices. At some point one of us started on earnest analogies of chicken and fish sandwiches. HA. If you’ve never worked in a large corporation, you might think it’s all Neo-in-the-matrix-like. If you have, you’d probably know that this…More

Day 28 of 100, Hannover, Germany This day’s unexpected encounter: premature twins. These ones – a fragile handful – were sleeping sweetly in their incubators when we (Flemming, myself, and their mother) arrived, cushioned by their blankets and a mass of tubes and wires that were part of the infrastructure that kept them going, growing.…More

Day 27 of 100, Hannover, Germany I realized at some point today, that I’m about 25% of the way through this 100 day project. Woo hoo! What’s the hashtag for this? #somethinggoals? Today was a nothing kind of day. Had some errangs to run – which is a strange thing to say when one is…More

Day 26 of 100, Hannover, Germany The four of us, sitting at the long dining table, two on laptops, two on paper. The midday sun, undeterred by cloud cover, pours in white silled windows. It’s still but for the faint churn of the dishwasher ingesting its breakfast, and typing sounds. A pot of Oxalis, luxuriously…More