You can see a glimpse of the clothes line through the trees. I don’t often shoot these sunrise shots. We face the west, so the highlight is usually the sunset, and we often ignore the sunrise. From our view, we don’t see the morning sun hit the water. Before now, I’m not sure why I [...]
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At the end of my exam, my gynecologists always looks me in the eye (I’m sure she does this to all the moms) and asks me this: Before you had children, you probably imagined yourself as a beautiful swan, having lots of children around you, because you loved children, and that’s what you wanted around [...]
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I opened a wedding invitation that came in the mail, but I couldn’t read it because it was written in one of those curvy scripts that look decadent, but you cannot actually read the words; especially when you’re in your 40s. I just didn’t have the time to focus on all of those swirls… it [...]
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He told us everything; he left so much unsaid. I became more intrigued just as he was jetting off to catch a plane, and the group interview with Nicholas Sparks, author of the book, Nights in Rodanthe, (and The Notebook), was coming to its close. The movie, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, opens in [...]
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This is hardly about thinking when you were 10 that when you turned 40 you would be old; and then becoming 40, and discovering that you don’t really feel that old. Being 40, you may, or will discover, to your delight, is much like your 20s, only better. When you’re in your 40s, you’re old [...]
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Saturday 7:15 a.m. Make cream of wheat, pull clothes out of dryer and rouse sleepy kids for various sports practices and one game. 10:15: Pick up last child from sports practice, and enter loaded car for overnight trip to the lake. 11:00: Realize we should have stopped to take the time to pick up a [...]
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There were some nice things about going without power for four days. The kids went to bed when it was dark; woke up by the sunrise. Reading by candlelight is nice, once you get the hang of it. And the house was entirely quiet. No humming of anything. We all have our vices; and there [...]
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The boy’s football game just started when the winds came. Seventy miles per hour, later recorded at the airport. We held the little boys close to us on our laps while we sat on the ground to watch the game; we couldn’t let them run off to the playground, the trees made it too dangerous [...]
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We needed something to sit on around our campfire at the lake. For too long, we carried those folding chairs up and down the steps, that were never there when you really need them. The most practical solution was always right in front of us. Trees. Tree stumps from trees damaged by high winds and [...]
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