Category: Photos

  • Getaway

    It has become harder and harder to escape myself. My mind, endlessly churning. My anxieties, sprouting like weeds between the cracks, blooming bigger as the years wear on, fertilized by horrors in headlines. The world is beautiful, and the world is terrible. Sometimes it helps to be reminded of the former. Sometimes it helps to…

  • New York City in Photos

    For me, New York is not a siren song, but still I can appreciate the rowhomes and their steps, Central Park, Soho, the crowded streets and the quieter ones, the endless buzzy aliveness of it all. The subways with their station names inlaid in charming little tiles. Chinatown’s red lanterns and steaming tea. The rambling,…

  • 2021 in photos

    2021 was a rockier ride than hoped for, right up to the very end… But there were still some good times. Although I am trying not to pin too many hopes on 2022, I do welcome the turning of the calendar to a fresh page.

  • Quiet

    I don’t suppose anyone with an online journal can claim to want nothing from it. If we truly wanted nothing, we wouldn’t be posting on the internet, after all. But my personal relationship with blogging has gone through many evolutions over many years, and I’m in a quiet place with it right now. There’s so…

  • Pandemic life in photos

    Life has gotten smaller in many ways… but there is sweetness still. One of the coolest things we have done since the pandemic started is this butterfly growing kit. (Thanks, Trisha!) IB enjoyed it, but as not as much as Andy and I did, haha. There has been bouncing… And baking… And growing… And family…