Category Archives: Photography

August Break: Day 30

It doesn’t matter that I told them he wouldn’t be home for two more hours, they spent that whole time waiting by the front door, getting up to look out the window, check every noise they heard, looking for him. They do this when I am gone after they’ve had their dinner too. They just know that after they’ve eaten, the next thing is to make sure everyone in the pack makes it home. There have been times when one of us is gone overnight that they both sleep in the living room. I might not have kids, but I have a family.

August Break: Day 29

This is a picture of me and my oldest niece, (who knows what we were eating, but we were enjoying it). It was taken ten years ago. She turns 14 today. When I look at this picture, I see how much younger we both were, and wonder at how much more innocent.

In the past ten years, we’ve both been through some really hard things — some of them happened to us but some of it was self-imposed suffering. We are both smarter and stronger for it. My wish on her birthday is that in the next year we each experience more love and more joy. Happiest of birthdays to you, Love Bug!