Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Hello Pittsburgh

I will be calling Pittsburgh my home! This message is a bit delayed, but I have accepted a job as the Head of Technical Theatre at Point Park University. I am excited to join the wonderful faculty and staff in the Conservatory of Performing Arts and Pittsburgh Playhouse.

I also need to apologize. I have not written a post for over 2 months. But when this news came about life became a bit busy. Selling a house is a lot of work. We have found that we owe more then our house is worth. …

Rest in Peace Grandma

My grandma Bollinger passed away last week after a long battle with cancer.  She will be missed.
Most of the family spent today together at a memorial celebration of Milly’s life.  I wasn’t able to be there today, but I was asked to put together a memorial slide show to be shown at the event.  With the help of my cousin Ryan and other family members, I was able to get all of the photos digitally here in Florida.  I then spent any extra time I had on building this show in After Effects.  (this wasn’t easy given all of the …

The TransPorters (March of Dimes)

So here is our official emblem of the TransPorters. If you haven’t been following the excitement on Facebook or Twitter, then you been missing out on the fundraising efforts of of my wife and I (mostly my wife). But we started raising money for a March of Dimes walk in celebration of Porter’s 1st birthday and to help support the efforts that go towards premature births. We originally set our goal as $350 dollars for each day that Porter was alive by the time we did the walk, but we found so much wonderful support. Before …

March for Babies

My wife was checking out the March of Dimes website and discovered that our local chapter was having a fundraising walk only 5 days before Porter’s first birthday (April 15).  She thought that maybe it would be a fun way to celebrate Porter’s first year while enjoying the spring weather and raising money for a great cause.
We have decided to call our team The Trans-PORTERs (trust me, it is better than some of the other names we threw around) and we are looking for people to join us on the walk.  We have …