I blame the cereal commercials. The sun is always shining on their kitchen tables through the California soundstage for Sunny-D or Raisin Bran or whatever, but here, the moon is still shining as we stumble through our morning routine and it’s still dark when my daughter walks into her school. In the commercials, the mom...
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“She was one of the first female photographers I remember. It merely changed from another bloke. This is interesting. Let’s see how long she lasts. But she hung in and that was the other big surprise. We thought, ‘she won’t last long.’” Keith Richards on Annie Leibovitz from the documentary A Life Through A Lens....
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I regret that I could not take on holiday card photo sessions this year for clients, so I’ve posted 10 Photography Tips for photographing your family this season on the Paper Boat Photography fan page on Facebook. And, to thank you for coming back here to read, I’ve put together a Teaworthy Holiday Gift Guide...
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This beautiful soul came into our world three weeks early. He came so fast and has seemed so pleased with himself to be here. We are overjoyed and I hear Billie Holiday’s version of Moonglow in the margins of my days. “I still hear you sayin’, “Dear one, hold me fast” And I keep on...
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I wanted to share this little book I made via Instagram & Blurb. I had a coupon so it cost me $7 bucks and took less than 30 minutes to make because you just go to Blurb.com and type in your Instagram info and it brings your photos over from there. {Instagram is a free...
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Esperanza Spalding is a new favorite. I love that her name means “hope” and love her covers even more than her original songs. Like this one of Lauryn Hill’s Tell Him. …and this one of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed.
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Kentucky Summers sound like this. I love the first song he plays called Hurting. Ben is one of those talented, positive Kentuckians who make us all proud of home. Our Kentucky summer looks a little like this these days:
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My daughter (6) looked at the finished crib and said, with a hand on her hip, “I am just not going to be happy until there is a baby in that crib.”
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Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love. -WH Auden We are working on getting the little cottage ready for our new baby. Three in this house has taken some creative storage solutions. Four...
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