Two years ago, I was hosting my freshly minted boyfriend from Canada so I didn’t work too hard to publish a year in review. One year ago, I was in Vietnam shooting the wedding of Ben and Hien a few  days after the boyfriend became the fiance so I didn’t publish a year in review….

  “My fiance is the most beautiful person upon whom I’ve ever laid eyes. She is also the most grammatically astute.” Every once in a while,  Facebook tells the story perfectly.  In one single proclamation to the world, this Facebook status perfectly encapsulates why John & Charli needed to be in a library after their…

Morning took a long time to arrive.  The clouds hung low, blocking out the early rays.  Google was, for once, proven wrong. It had told us that sunrise would be early. Bold. Dramatic. It failed. It grew lighter, less dark. She could now count her fingers — her cold fingers — by sight instead of…

Although several years had passed, the park still held tainted memories. She’d stood under the picnic shelter, clutching a carefully penned letter addressed to him. It wasn’t the kind of letter you want to remember, but it held a message that was hard to forget: “I like you, but the timing isn’t right. We’re over.”  …

She giggled, watching it play. The gray squirrel ran along the ground – hopping, really – so full of energy you would think it was reveling in the sunshine as much as they were. Only moments before the skies had been bursting with water. Then it was just gray. Now, it was delightfully sun-fillled. A…

“What can I do for you today?” The man behind the counter leaned forward ever so slightly, making sure the next client could hear him beyond the glass. The glass partition almost made it seem as though he was afraid of human interaction, but his jovial smile proved otherwise. Keegan grinned, triumphantly. “We are here…