I enrolled in a watercolor class at The Art League last winter precisely because I know nothing about watercolor. I have found that studying art in unfamiliar mediums helps me to see the familiar more clearly — that is to say, studying watercolor helps me to solve problems that I come across in, say, photography….
Under Coach Steiner and Coach Carlos, our 6th grader’s basketball team brought home the division AND tournament trophies this year! :)
Coach Lou is my daughter’s swim coach. He holds an MS in Astrophysics (among other impressive achievements) and is strikingly intelligent and personable. Last summer, he spent all of 10 minutes showing Lexi some stroke tips that were so simple it almost blew our minds, and the following weekend she smashed her previous best time…
I first met Adrienne when she was just a toddler, way back in the day when my then-boyfriend was in UPT (Undergraduate Pilot Training) with her Daddy. The class graduated and scattered; fast forward 15 years that seemed like 5 and suddenly Adrienne is all grown up! We spend a chilly fall morning at Burke…
Carter is my neighbor. He was in the front yard playing Saturday morning, all packed up with his soft pillow, ready for his parents to road-trip him to the water park. He saw me walking out my front door with two very cute little kids (not mine; these two were all dressed up and here…
David and Shelley celebrated both their first date and their engagement at Vintage Ridge Winery. “They pair their tastings with food, which altered David’s plan of surprising me with an afternoon picnic,” Shelley says. ”So we had an evening picnic instead. David pulled out a massive blue cooler — I thought he must not have a…
This morning, I photographed a flying fish. Timmy is the dive coach at Walden Glen. Kids at the pool adore Timmy; wherever he is on the pool deck, there’s a crowd of kids of all ages surrounding him, trailing after him, trying to get his attention. Sometimes, the crowd starts to chant, “Belly-FLOP! Belly-FLOP! Belly-FLOP!…
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