Consolation Prize?

I can't be there for him in the same way I was there for her. I can't spend hours in bed counting his toes, memorizing his face, reading out loud, and listening and responding to each coo and smile. But for any attention he has lost from me, it has been made up 100 fold with the attention he gets from her. The adoration is completely mutual.

Barefeet....in January

I don't think kids have the same physical experience of cold.

Rainy Day Fishing

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

A Coffee Break

"I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't." - Martha Quinn

Portrait of a Camera

Back in business. In fact, we are now in a much better business.

First Dance Class

My camera broke. I am relying on a cell phone camera. Not even my own cell phone camera.


"There's just something about dance." - Patrick Swayze

The Barbaloot Suit

"But I'm also in charge of the brown Barbaloots,

who played in the shade in their Barbaloot suits

and happily lived eating truffula fruits." - The Lorax, Dr. Suess