This calendar page turn feels different. Usually by New Year’s I have a word for the year and a mile-long list of goals, both personal and business. I have an inspirational IG caption all fired up and enough drive/motivation for a dozen people.Not so this year. I’m experiencing something better than drive…contentment. I find myself […]

This past June, my side of the family met up at a cabin near the Finger Lakes in Upstate NY. My camera doesn’t always come along when it’s tired, but being at the start of the summer, I was feeling charged and snapped a few pics as my family played. As we swam, fished, played […]

My husband is an only child, and we are blessed to have his parents living close by. Three years ago, they purchased a mid-century A-frame cabin for us all on a small pond near Sunapee, NH. It was a 1972 time capsule when they bought it, complete with red Formica kitchen countertops, avocado green appliances, […]

My sweet friend, Katrina (Fifty Two Hundred Photo), speaks my heart language, so it was no surprise that the family film she, and her husband Mark, created for us…was everything I needed. My family has been captured by so many talented photographers, but never on video. I wanted my kids to remember the way I […]

Knowing how much I enjoy writing, Dave often asks why I don’t blog more and has been nudging me to blog our trip. I love to express feelings in words but sometimes the feelings are so full there aren’t words enough to express them. Friends ask “How was Thailand?!” but how do you to express […]

I have a thing for foggy beaches. They’re ethereal — completely magical.   Knowing this, I was awakened out of a dead sleep our last morning in Avalon by all three family members – the littlest holding my camera bag. I told them ‘no thanks’ and rolled over but was jostled out of bed by […]