Category archives: Life Lately
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- I mentioned in a previous blog post that my 2020 word of the year was "Create." I wanted to create more than I consumed. I wanted to get back to why I started a photography business - to create beautiful photographs to inspire families to share their memories of these milestone moments. Of course, when I chose this w[...]
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- It was my friend Kalee’s dad who first suggested audio books when undertaking a long road trip. How do you stay alert when your view is a perpetual ribbon of highway with patches of red tail lights? It can look the same for miles on miles, and this can eventually have a hypnotic effect.
Having recently complete[...]
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- Sunday is definitely a funday, and I hope you are out enjoying the sunshine, spending time with a good book, catching up with a good friend, or simply chillaxing and living your very best life. I know that the days can often feel like it’s its own merry-go-round, and I remind myself to build in some breaks.
I w[...]
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- Ah, July!
When the conversation turns to summertime and the month of July, the topics we discuss are:
*What are we doing for the 4th of July?
*What are we doing to stay cool?
*What are we grilling?
We love a good old fashioned cookout at our house on this holiday, whether it's just the two of us or it en[...]
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- With the start of this new year, I have loved reading and seeing how people are kicking off the year. Some of you are goal-driven and some of you have shed the idea of resolutions altogether. Either way, hurrah! I am convinced that knowing what you need and embracing it is what "fills your well."
Of course, we ma[...]
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Mr. Nussbaum, a 6th grade teacher in the Fairfax County Public Schools, shares this image and explains the idiom of how “time flies” means that time goes by very quickly, and I couldn’t think of a better way to sum up this past month. May seems to have flown right by me, and when I look back through my calendar, I[...]
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- Phew! We survived Hurricane Matthew with little issue. The power stayed on. Trees stayed upright. To the people who were less fortunate with their homes and their businesses, my thoughts are with you.
Usually a rainy day for me means staying inside to bake. Last week, though, our oven died so in planning for the[...]
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- 67You may not know his name, but you know the images he captured over 100 years ago, which eventually led to the change in child labor laws in America.
Lewis Hine worked as a school teacher, where he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium. It was around this time when he also starte[...]
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- Hello and Happy Tuesday! While Labor Day may have started out as a day to give workers a break from their jobs, it has evolved into a glorious goodbye to summer/start the school year/kick off to fall.
Growing up, my family celebrated this holiday by going to the Feast of the Three Saints in Lawrence, MA. This past[...]
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- Can you believe the close of August is coming? This last weekend of summer is here already…and then it’s Labor Day and a three-day holiday weekend. And then…FALL!!! Fall is my favorite season, but before I get ahead of myself, let’s lament over the end of August for a bit longer, shall we?
Summer for me was about[...]
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- Happy Friday! Let’s do a fill-in-the-blank:
Summer is for________________.
What do you do in the summertime? It can be beach trips and road trips. Maybe it’s travel and time with family. Better yet, it’s a chance to read and play and swim and do all the things that we can’t do in the winter months. Summer gi[...]
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This past Monday, I celebrated my first “NC-versary.” One year ago on that date, I moved to North Carolina from the San Francisco Bay Area to join my husband after we had been bi-coastal for two years for work reasons. A lot has happened in a year.
When I moved, I knew I would be taking this time as a sabbatical fo[...]
