I don’t have time to write the post I’d like to write today, flying back from California, but I wanted you to know I am thinking of you. I do that a lot, you know. I can guarantee you that I have described you and what I know of you and why I love each [...]

My friend Katy makes ties. And she does a beautiful job with them. When she and her husband Joseph came to visit us last fall, we hit the back deck for about half an hour to play around with the ties and the camera. I wanted to see what I could do, and she thought [...]

Today is my Jacquie’s birthday. She would be 30 this year. There isn’t a year that goes by since I’ve met her that I don’t remember her day – this from me, who struggles to remember dates for anything. I haven’t heard from Jacquie in several years, not since she came to visit me hoping [...]

You might remember these three from one of my numerous Southern Weddings contest entries, but I have to tell you, we did a whole lot more that day than stand around looking at bridal magazines. This is a reveal that has been WAAAYYY too long coming, but because it was one I shot for my [...]

I have officially been sick since December. I’m ready to feel better now. It feels like spring outside – we’ve had windows open the last two days. I never thought I could love living in the South before I discovered its early springtime. After winter (short though it may be here), it feels like a [...]

The sun is rising this morning after a week of dark. I know what it’s gonna reveal here – mostly brown and dead and leftover wet – but I seriously can’t wait for the light. I used to be spectacularly good at putting on an act, doing what I was supposed to do. Now, I’m [...]

Opening my home is not an easy thing for me. It involves cleaning my house and preparing my kitchen for extra mouths. It means that I won’t have my own space, the little that I get in between my littles on a given day. It often means that I have to take care what I [...]