I never expected it to happen. When I first picked up a camera, ten years ago, I never expected it to happen. I never expected to fall in love. With the way light would fall across a room or the way two people could smile at each other or the way my soul expanded while […]

I remember putting my son to bed one night when I suddenly noticed how big he had gotten.  I remember when he was just a baby and he used to comfortably fit – spread eagle – across a pillow on my lap.  All of the sudden, when I sat with him in his chair at […]

“Babe, it’s happening…this is actually happening” This is what I said to my husband one day as we were going through a walk in the woods when I was nineteen weeks pregnant.  It’s happening.  Life, is happening. I tend to be a worrier.  I am prone to thinking too far ahead and often times, I […]

Confession: I haven’t actually touched my wedding dress since the day that I got married!  It’s in a box somewhere in our basement in the exact filthy state it was when I took it off nearly thirteen years ago!  And to think that I was so careful the entire time I was wearing it!! I […]

Taking the leap to become self-employed can be one of the scariest things ever.  Especially in any creative venture.  Putting yourself out there, in front of the world’s subjectivity, requires brave steps. Even now, six years later, I still have moments in which I wonder if it will all come crashing down around me. And […]

When I was growing up in London, there used to be something called the Western Fair that came to town every year.  From the middle of the scorching summer sun, this great event would arise and somehow, turn everything into Fall. There would concerts, a giant midway, agricultural exhibits and of course, the anticipation that […]