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Monroe, Louisiana

The best Media and Journalism Program in the State, and I want to help make it even better!!

• Experience (provides application and opportunities to increase knowledge)
• Understanding (Creates the checks and balances along with self-corrections and adjustment)
• Patience (time to walk through life’s challenges and see both expected and unexpected outcomes)
• Mentoring ability (Few people appreciate domineering egos, especially the young. A good professor is an academic coach that helps the student players win the education game to get the degree trophy and go to the employment celebration after party)

hiking Tiger Mountain in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2018.

curiosity.

Sarah Howell, my 12th grade English teacher. She was super smart, attractive, educated and had Ronald McDonald hair. I couldn’t wait to attend her class.

Tai Chi - Yang Family Style Long Form.

my sons.

Dedication and determination through an insatiable sense of curiosity.

The value is the path toward the metropolis of understanding it places you on, not the socioeconomic level of pay society (all societies) place on it relative to fluctuating job markets and industry-based employment.

Teach what you know, learn what you don’t

I teach photojournalism and photography now. I’d teach fine art photography (my minor in college because, although highly competitive, getting a job in photojournalism was much more probable than getting a job in commercial photography or becoming a fine art photographer) because naked people and leaves provides a much needed break from the reality of civil violence, corrupt politics and a world in everyday disarray pretending to be organized.

Leave the country immediately after graduating! Go to Shaolin and don’t look back!

Being a good photographer is being an experienced photographer, and being a good journalist and being a listener, not an activist. You provide a voice for the voiceless, not a blowhorn for your own opinion.

go to Shaolin Monastery/Temple and practice Chinese Wushu.

my photography.

Yanni’s “In Celebration of Life”

My library of books

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers.

Hokkaido, Japan.

A photographer’s table of Steve McCurry, Annie Liebovitz, James Nachtwey and Gordon Parks.

“Get Good and Get Out!” career advice I received from members at Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida in reference to working at a terrible newspaper.

my new Dell 2719H Monitor which rotates for page design work in Adobe InDesign.

the New Orleans Saints.

unpruned trees and power lines.

“Snap Judgment”

“Prometheus” 2012.

“Dark” on Netflix.

fried catfish with Louisiana Hot Sauce and Cajun rice with a splash of Tony Chacerés seasoning.

Liver.

a windy rainy day with heavy rolling clouds drinking a hot caramel Mocha at a coffee house in rural Japan.

Lion-O from the “ThunderCats” cartoon series.

my job at A-State.

“Cry Little Sister” by G Tom Mac.

Neither

Hardback

Mountains

I’m dinner until I go to my mother’s home, then its supper.

Beyoncé.

communicate with every lifeform.

watched Dr. Who as a young child.

“You can’t teach what you don’t KNOW, You can’t lead where you won’t GO, You can’t give what you ain’t GOT, Then again, you cannot be what you are NOT!”