{"id":200,"date":"2025-11-02T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paul.macpherson.photography\/TMI\/?p=200"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:16:12","slug":"start-here-what-the-tmi-blog-is-and-why-it-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paul.macpherson.photography\/TMI\/start-here-what-the-tmi-blog-is-and-why-it-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Here: What the TMI Blog Is (and Why It Exists)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re coming here from my main photography site, welcome \u2014 and a small warning: this space is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TMI<\/strong> stands for Too Much Information<\/em>, and that\u2019s intentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My photography website is where the work lives. The images. The walks. The cities. The discipline of seeing. It\u2019s curated, edited, and outward-facing \u2014 a place where the photographs speak for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog exists for everything that doesn\u2019t fit neatly beside a finished image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TMI is where I document the infrastructure<\/em> of my life: health, cancer, recovery, fasting, blood pressure, scans, numbers, setbacks, and momentum. It\u2019s the unfiltered record of what it takes to keep walking, keep photographing, and keep showing up when the body is under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a reason these posts live separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography, at its best, is distilled.
Illness, recovery, and endurance are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, I write in real time. I track medical data. I interpret scans and bloodwork. I talk openly about living with metastatic cancer, navigating treatment, managing energy, and adapting routines so I can continue doing the work that matters to me. Nothing here is theoretical. It\u2019s lived, measured, and updated as the story unfolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog isn\u2019t meant to be inspirational in the glossy sense. It\u2019s meant to be honest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some posts are technical. Some are reflective. Some are uncomfortable. All of them exist to answer one ongoing question: how do you keep moving forward when the conditions keep changing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re here for the photographs, you don\u2019t need to read this blog.
If you\u2019re curious about the person behind the walks, the discipline behind the output, or the reality behind the resilience \u2014 this is where that story lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no required order. No starting point beyond today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is simply the record, written as clearly as I can, while I\u2019m still in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re coming here from my main photography site, welcome \u2014 and a small warning: this space is different. TMI stands for Too Much Information, and that\u2019s intentional. My photography website is where the work lives. The images. The walks. The cities. The discipline of seeing. It\u2019s curated, edited, and 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