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Human beings have a deep need to represent their experience through writing. We need to make our truths beautiful. With crude pictographs, cave men inscribed their stories onto stony cave walls. with magic markers, pens, lipstick, and pencils, little children leave their marks on bathroom walls, on the backs of old envelopes, on their big [...]

When I was a kid I remember having “freckle days” — days when my freckles somehow seemed more noticeable than usual. My Leo’s freckles were out today, and I somehow managed to talk him into getting in front of my lens.

At first he wasn’t sure.

Then he got a bit skeptical.

Then a little silly.

Then even sillier.

And [...]

I’m spending my Easter in lovely solitude. The kids are with their dad for the weekend so it’s just me and Lula for the day. Lula, the couch, my knitting and Pandora will be my companions. After all the traveling I’ve been doing this day alone will be just the antidote.
On Friday Alice and I [...]

So, now that I’ve got this new fancy-shmancy computer with fancy-shmancy programs like Photoshop, I’m having a great time fiddling away at my photos.
I feel like I don’t have enough skill with Photoshop to know what to do other than to crop, lighten up the photo and a few other little tricks, but lucky for [...]

Ooh! I’m so happy with my new toy. My mom got a new computer and handed down her Mac G5 to me. Love love love it! I’m remembering all the reasons I was a Mac person so long ago!
The best part is that this computer is already loaded with all the yummy software I’ve been [...]

My blog is back up and running! Posts have been running through my mind like crazy. They’ll be coming over the next few days. I think I need to do a make-over, too. Seems like some things were lost in the shuffle. Be back soon!

So, after months of agonizing, I did finally purchase a camera, and I’m so pleased with it.
For the longest time I debated between going with a DSLR or a simpler premium point and shoot. I decided that because I really do want to be able to achieve some beautiful effects in the photos I take [...]

It is so interesting to me to have these two back to back days, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, that inspire in me to think in two such completely opposite ways. Today feels like a day to look back over the year that was 2009. Though I usually find it much more difficult to look backwards [...]

A little over a week ago I set up an account with Google Analytics, and I just have to rave about it here. It is so cool! Because of this blog tracking service I know that people as far away as India, Norway, and New Zealand have visited my little blog! I know that most of [...]

Alice asks me at least three times a day how many days until Christmas. I’m not sure if it’s a memory thing (Calvin would attribute it to the brick that the neighbor kid threw at her head when she was 2) or just wanting confirmation that I wasn’t just tricking her the first time I [...]

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