You Are An Artist

You Are An Artist

This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. Last Friday I joined a small group of talented family photographers for our first of (hopefully) many book clubs. We are spending the first few months on a classic work, one…

Just Going For It

Just Going For It

This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. I will be the first to admit that parenting has curbed my adventurous inclinations. It is really hard to find sequential days when everyone is free and no one is sick…

18 Months is Fun

18 Months is Fun

This is an adaptation of my weekly newsletter, Adventures Big & Small. If you want to receive emails like these, click here to subscribe. Our daughter is almost 18 months old. And aside from the feeling that time and toddlerhood are rapidly slipping through our fingers, I think a lot about how much fun we’re…

Why Sundays?

Why Sundays?

I send a newsletter to my lovely email list every Sunday. I doubt anyone has ever wondered why Sunday. But there is a reason and I think you will appreciate it. Growing up, Sundays were for the beach. From as early as I have memory I remember packing the old canvas beach bag, the blue…

One Foot in the Canoe

One Foot in the Canoe

“Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot on the shore, are going to fall into the river.”  – Native American Tuscarora Proverb  It is Fall and this time of year family photographers tend to be promoting mini sessions with lots of language telling you that their calendar is almost full so you better…

We Need a Photographer

We Need a Photographer

“Life here feels physical, tangible, dirt-beneath-your-feet real. Putting myself behind the lens has a way of taking me out of the moment, and I usually don’t want to do that.” It is wild how much daily life in our little family has changed over the past two months. Moving will do that. My office used…