Author: Gina Marie
-
A Spontaneous Visit to Mesa Verde
On our 11-day epic Southwestern vacation, we left a little wiggle room at the end of the trip to be spontaneous. We wound up first in Durango, Colorado, an adorable mountain town 20 minutes from the New Mexico border. Mesa Verde (Spanish for “Green Table”) National Park was a daytrip destination about a half hour…
-
Goodbye, ABQ
3 nights in Albuquerque + 4 nights in Santa Fe + 3 nights in Durango = 1 very contented Gina Marie. But alas, it’s over. I cried when I left Albuquerque, and I’m generally not the crying type. Sure, I may have been on Day 1 of my period and sure, I may have just…
-
A Moment Worth Recording
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. A photograph celebrates neither…
-
Deprogramming the Messages from a Christian Science Childhood
“It’s not that easy to let go of the way you were taught to think about everything.” -Leah Remini, Season 1: Episode 10 Scientology and the Aftermath I have recently begun to re-evaluate a chapter of my life I thought had closed long ago: that is, the departure from my childhood religion, Christian Science. I…
Virtually Gina 