Every year before Christmas, my mom and I designate a day for a holiday baking extravaganza. We spend the entire day making an absurdly vast array of sweet treats. There are a handful of signature items that we repeat annually: buckeyes, truffles, chocolate covered pretzels, church windows, butterscotch haystacks, and chocolate jam bars. We usually [...]

Sometimes you look for freelance work; sometimes freelance work finds you.
Last month, out of the blue, I got an email from Roady’s Hometown Truck Stop Magazine asking me if I’d be interested in taking photos of the owners of a truck stop in Hayti, Mo., for the August issue of their magazine. I had never [...]