It seems only fitting that I am finishing 2014 the same way I started it: reveling in this cutie. Remember when she was just three hours old? I do. Or what about when she was three months old? Oh, the cuteness. And now she is one year old. Just as cute. Infinitely more mobile. Knows how…
She wanted to climb high, reach higher, find a new path, forge her own way. One handhold at a time, from ledge to ledge, inching her way up the barely scale-able wall of red crusty rock. She tried to do it on her own, she really did. But she couldn’t: she couldn’t do it on…
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.” Margaret Mitchell said it so much better than I ever could, and isn’t it true? On the morning of the long-anticipated fall family photo session, one child evidenced every ounce of stubbornness in those little bones while the other child grinned like nobody’s business….
Every day is a good day when there’s sunshine (especially in the rainy Pacific Northwest) but it’s an even BETTER day when that sunshine comes out just in time to witness Vancouver’s partial solar eclipse (my very first solar eclipse!). The day had been cloudy and rainy but as I drove to Campbell Valley Park,…
“Oh, you guuuyyys! You’re looking so good. So rad. So fabulous! Just stay right there…I’m going to try to get the dogs’ attention…give me some patience…you guys just look at me and we’ll hope the dogs do, too.” I crouched under my umbrella for the Rai’s Steveston family photos and monologued — partially for myself…
She stood on the edge of the world, teetering between the delights of an unknown expanse and the comforts of familiar reality. To her, it looked like a grand adventure waiting to be explored. To her parents, however, she was just a few inches from soiling her outfit by falling face-first into the ocean. (This…
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