From the time my 26-year-old son Justin was a tiny boy, I knew he had a flair for writing. He used to write the most creative short stories and won national writing contests. So it was surprising to me when he asked if he could interview for admission at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science in Mobile while still in high school. After all, he was a right-brain person, or so I thought. I just assumed he would go into a field similar to my own.
Well, eleven years later, he's definitely using that left brain. He now has his doctorate in biophysics and is a pediatric brain cancer researcher at St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis. My daughter-in-law Kayla also works there in human resources.
A few year ago, he started showing an interest in learning photography. Self-taught, he's taking these amazingly vivid photos and has shot
weddings and senior photos. Sometimes I watch him taking these photos and I have no clue what he's shooting, but the end-result is usually something incredible that I couldn't even see.
So I guess some people can be both right brain and left brain. I'm usually lucky if I can get one half even remotely working.
Some of his work is shown at the right of this page.
