I love making little books and have for as long as I can remember. All it takes is a small adventure, any kind of camera and some people. It helps if there is action of some kind but even without it, you can tell a teeny tiny story about almost …
Mortality is about contrasts. We are here to experience them. I love powerful contrasts. Light and shadow. Fast and slow. Up and down. Happy and Sad. Well, maybe not “sad”. Andrew’s mother remembered the bags of birdseed. She had been to the park before. I’ll bet you can hear the …
I sat on the grass, quite far away. When she picked it up I raised my camera. She asked what it was while knitting her brow with concern and confusion. I said it was a sprinkler like it should be obvious to everyone and proceeded to tell her more than …
Dollar Store Water Bottles This was several years ago. The green jeep has long since quit working, the bottles from The Dollar Store are long gone and these two 14-year-olds of today still enjoy each other’s company but like to do very different things. I love this photograph because of …
Personalities When you are growing up and you are the oldest, it is sometimes all you can do to put up with the silliness of siblings and cousins. Perhaps you remember. If you were one of the children in this photograph, you would be able to use this and other …
This is one of my favorite family photographs. It is all about body language and facial expressions, a new dog and an escaped toddler. It is about the child in the red hoodie who is always in the middle and the wisdom of the oldest child which she is sharing …
Hey, kids: You are the kids who know about “unusual things before breakfast” but I, too, have looked for such things all of my life. Most of the time things that appear on the surface to be ordinary, are in fact not. Here are a few more examples of not-so-ordinary …
Dear Grandchildren: I have embarked on a journey through all of the photographs I have taken of you over many, many years. I am determined to give each of you the photo stories that touch my heart every time I see them. Even without a word of explanation, the photos …
journal entry: Here is a second post about things kids can do while they are at home. Perhaps good weather will come soon and our attention can turn to playing in the yard. Some kids just might like having a tent in the yard when it is raining or snowing. …
journal entry: Okay. Let’s think about things to do. Before you roll your eyes and say that it is easy for me to tell someone with a houseful of confined, small, children how to get through the day . . . you might remember that I have made a Grandmotherhood …
