They Picked Us!
We’ve always said they picked us before they arrived. We’ve always felt that our kids picked us before we met them. Both of our daughters are adopted and this is the story of our first becoming parents. After one late miscarriage and many surgeries for an illness, we had decided to adopt. Cathy wanted kids and at the time…
Canaries in My Coal Mine
Prologue Back in the days before Electronic Early Warning Systems, coal miners would take a canary in a cage, down with them into the mines. If the canary stopped singing and fell over dead, they knew it meant “Warning-get Out Now!”. I use this as a metaphor. We each live in our own coal mine…
About Tom
My dad bought me my first camera, when I was nine. We were in Jackson Hole Wyoming, in our little 15 foot Shasta travel trailer on summer vacation. Our destination – Yellowstone National Park! He bought two of them, one for me and one for my little brother, Pat. He paid for the little Brownie…
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is an hour north of San Francisco, on Highway 101. My older brother, Hank, and his family moved from the San Fernando Valley to take a teaching position at Santa Rosa Junior High School. 12 years older than me, he, his wife and three kids quickly fell in love with Sonoma County. Then three…
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Tom Patterson – Photographer – Writer – and Seeker 
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