I’m sitting here at my desk with a headful of L’Oreal Espresso hair color (shhh, our little secret), listening to Bob Dylan and Green Day on my mP3 player and trying to get my head in artist mode. In a few hours I will have my reception for my solo photography exhibit. This is my […]

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Do you really want me to write today? Because I must warn you that my thoughts are a tangle. I am trying to gather them up and have them make some sort of sense, to put them in some sort of order, but they keep slipping through my mental fingers. Here are the threads I am […]

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There are levels… layers… of adjustment.
Today we met with Davey’s school team — school director, regular pre-K teacher, sped teacher, therapists — to discuss his Kindergarten program for the coming year. The meeting went well, we all agreed on the type of program and support he needs. And he needs a lot. A year ago, […]

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Now, just because I take pictures of horses doesn’t mean I think I’m some kind of Jr Pioneer Woman. I too have horses. I too am a photographer. Oh, and we both have four kids. But we live worlds apart, even though, yeah, sure, the life she’s living would have sounded like heaven to me […]

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Four kids, one stomach virus, five days.
A snowstorm on Monday that closed school.
A half day of school today.
Another possible snowday on Friday - to be determined.
A federal holiday on Monday.

Reinforcements arrive next Wednesday in the guise of a set of grandparents!

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Aside from the obvious, such as barfing, you will easily ascertain that your twin toddlers have the latest and greatest intestinal virus when you see these signs:

your toddlers wake from a 2-1/2 hour nap at 4:50 pm and by 7:10 pm are asking to go to bed
your tooth-brushing loving toddlers stand at the sink with […]

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Not literally today, of course. It’s a gray winter day in New England.
But hey, that’s ok today!
My photographs, all 23 of them, are mounted and matted and framed. They are offically ready to hang and tonight I drop them off at the gallery. Yesterday the curator sent me a copy of the press release and […]

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What ever happened to all that NaBloPoMo gumption? It has fled with the late autumn. We are in deep freeze here. The windows are frosted over so that all I can see is a white haze where usually is visible the barn and the pasture and the dark shapes of the horses milling around the […]

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