Category Archives: personal

Summer Vacation

My parents were teachers.  Every summer, while they worked around the house, my brother and I would spend our days swimming in the neighbors’ pools or riding bikes up and down the street until our legs just couldn’t pedal anymore.   We’d stay up a little too late, get a little too much sun and hit the...

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Getting Back to my Roots

A little over a year ago, I was in a bad place. Funny, because I should have been on top of the world.  I’d just left my legal job and was working at an absolutely amazing studio for a man who I consider one of (if not the) best photographers, teachers and mentors in the...

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Saving Days

As a parent there are moments you think you’ll never forget. Most recently, it was the fact that my son has started to develop tiny freckles – one on his stomach and one on his butt. “I’ll remember them because they appeared almost exactly when he turned 2 1/2,” I told myself. Yet, over three years after...

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A Girl

“Oh crap, does this mean I’m going to have to shop at that horrible American Girl store?”  It was the first question I asked my husband once the news set in.  Come December, our household’s grossly uneven ratio of testosterone to estrogen will shift a little bit in my favor as we welcome a baby girl into...

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Yesterday

Just when you think that you’re in control, just when you think that you’ve got a hold, just when you get on a roll, here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again. Oh, here it goes again. I should have known, should have known, should have known again, but here it goes again....

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