North America Archive

  • #3: Take a hike!

    #3: Take a hike!

    Though I completed item #3: Hike on a trail outside CA on the “Life To Do List” a while back, I’ve only just now completed the final video from the trip. For a refresher about my visit to North Carolina, Click Here! As I mentioned...

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  • Mickey, You’re so Fine!

    Mickey, You’re so Fine!

    Recently, I traveled with my roommate Trevor to the happiest place on earth. Instead of heading straight to Disneyland, we decided to use his free birthday pass to head on over to “California Adventure.” This newer themepark features skylines from familiar metropolises and attractions with...

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  • North Carolina Journeys

    North Carolina Journeys

    Global branding is an important park of self-marketing. It’s important that the various forms of media in which you sell a product are all united in their messaging. With the recent renaming (and thus rebranding) of my website to “Journey With Janelle,” It became all...

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  • N. Carolina Photography

    N. Carolina Photography

    This past week I had the pleasure of traveling to Asheville and Greensboro, NC. Having never been to the state, I was particularly looking forward to photographing during one of the most gorgeous times of year. The weather played nicely with my camera as my...

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  • The Dinah 2009

    The Dinah 2009

    On my ever-expanding journey to become a full-time Documentary Filmmaker and Producer, I decided I need to practice. Wherever I go, I need to bring my video camera. And my still camera. And my eye for the stories of the places I visit. This past...

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  • Coming Home

    Coming Home

    This week, I moved back in to my home. My Sanctuary. The room and the furniture and the world art that is so familiar. “Home,” and the concept thereof, is a crucial part of my success. I am incredibly lucky to have always had a...

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  • #17: Road-Trippin

    #17: Road-Trippin

    #17 on the Life To Do List is complete! I headed back down to SoCal a couple of days ago after another stay in my parents’ guest room in the San Francisco Bay Area. Don’t you just love how Mom and Pop are always game...

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  • High School Mini-Reunion

    High School Mini-Reunion

    The power of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook never ceases to amaze me. You just never know how is looking at your page and who might be interested in what’s going on in your world. It’s so easy to feel little and small...

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  • Wish I was there

    Wish I was there

    I can’t describe how hard it’s been to not be in California since the election. I constantly peruse the myspace pages and facebook profiles of my Cali buddies as they share their pix and stories from the protests and rallies taking place on a daily...

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  • Yes We Did.

    Yes We Did.

    Last night I cried a whole lot. I mean… the tears just flowed and flowed and I sobbed and sobbed. Oprah calls it the “ugly cry.” The kind where there are heaving breaths mixed with moans of release. Where the normal human desire to contain...

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