Why Facebook? Why am I here—of all places—scrolling, posting, chasing something I can’t quite name? Sure, it can be fun, but let’s be honest: what am I actually doing here? The answer is embarrassingly simple: validation. However, is it my validation, yours, or something else? Since it's my Facebook account, you might think it would be my validation.

The Lost Tales of Emerson Kaye is heavily layered in meta-fiction, requiring the reader to understand that the author is playing a character within his own made-up world. This collection of fictional journals and narrative excerpts chronicles the life of Emerson Kaye, a man who claims to be over three hundred years old. A meta-fictional memoir, blending personal recollections of barroom encounters with an epic fantasy backstory involving a dimension called the Underverse.

There are moments in photography that feel less like taking a picture and more like stepping into alignment with something larger than yourself. Not spiritually. Not mystically. More like physics briefly agreeing to be seen. For me, those moments happen when the sun passes through places it only visits twice a year. When light, architecture, and my own stubborn planning intersect for a few quiet minutes before the world resumes its noise. This is my version of phototherapy.