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about the site...

Thanks for visiting my website! I hope you enjoy your stay and are able to find your way around without any problems.

I created this site as a project, but it turned into a different few things. First off, it is a blog; simply a place where I can write some of my scattered, random thoughts, and occasionally rant a little bit, about how the man is keeping you (and me) down.

Secondly, it has become a place where I have posted some photography, so feel free to check some of that out as well. And lastly, This site will be used as part of a a few different projects for my masters degree. Feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments, concerns during your stay: (benhelms@gmail.com)

about me...

A little about me, let’s see...Well, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to Los Angeles for college and about halfway through that I moved out to Boston. After falling in love with New England (go Pats/Sox!), I made my way back to SoCal and got two degrees from Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles, CA (a BA in English-Writing & an MS in College Counseling and Student Development). Then I moved up to Oregon and woked as a Hall Director at the University of Portland in Oregon. From there, I moved down to Mt. Shasta, California. Man, I love this place. Mountains, sun, snow, and family. What more could a man ask for?

Besides all that, I love writing, backpacking, photography, homebrewing, music (recording, composing and listening), playing/watching sports, and exploring new lands.

Category Archives: Life Musings

TV/Film Paradigm Shift

Times are a changin’. Television shows are getting better and better while Hollywood has continued to hang their hats on the same old stuff. While TV programming is becoming more and more film-like, it seems like the film industry is making that a pretty low bar. And sure while we’ll always have wonderful films each...

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What’s My Legacy? (Part II)

I started the first half of my Legacy post with my wife and what an inspiration she’s been to me since I first met her. Well, I have no doubts where she got her overall amazingness from: her parents, Mike and Janie Reed. Mike has got to be the most dedicated husband I’ve ever met....

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What’s My Legacy? (Part I)

I got married last year and since then (well, even before then to be completely honest) my wife and I have talked a lot about our kids. We don’t have any kids. Yet. But, we’re both planners and we like to focus on the future–a little too much at times–so we talk about what life...

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Creative Outlets

I haven’t taken a photo on my camera in over 2 months. As I’ve said before in this blog, this summer has been full of transition after transition and along the way I seem to put a few things on the back burner. Like most people (I think…), the busier life gets, the more you...

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God Knows What He’s Doing…Right?

I feel like we’ve been in limbo–my wife and I–for the past 4-6 months. Holy crap, it’s August? Okay, since January. Wow. It’s been a year of transitions. Come to think of it, it’s been over two years of seemingly constant and significant transitions. – May 2010: Graduate from APU with my M.S. – July...

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Villa Viri Superbi

In honor of the hall I’ve called my home for the last two years… Thanks again, guys. Thanks for everything. Related Posts:Taking Our Talents to Rockaway BeachMerry Christmas 2010 In PicturesEnd of An Era (Villa Maria 2010-11)Go Tell It On the MountainMom In PortlandVilla Movin

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Staying Motivated

I remember when I was a kid, I read the book Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live in Room 10. From what I remember, it’s the story of a group of students being shocked at (somehow) finding out that their homeroom teacher doesn’t live in her classroom. I know, it sounds kind of juvenile (hey, it’s a...

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