Super Rachel Zana's Spot

This is one of my favorite kids ever, next to my own, of course. I have such great memories of taking care of her when she was a toddler. She and Ms. Crazy Preschooler had some of the best times playing together and learning to share together. I love her…

We were visited today by some of our favorite friends ever. All the kids who could run spent the morning chasing each other around the backyard, through the house and up and down the stairs. This flurry of activity was interupted about every ten minutes by ALL of them dispersing…

Hannah had a lot of stranger anxiety during our trip to North Dakota, so a lot of the pictures I took of her with grandparents and great grandparents and godmothers involved her screaming like a maniac, scared senseless with absolute panic in her eyes, and the poor person holding her…

To escape the heat and opressive humidity, we went for a stroll on the lakewalk tonight, where the cool crisp breeze floats across the icy water and chills your skin. Here is what I saw: 1. A flotilla of sailboats having a race. I’m not all that familiar with sailboats,…

We had just a few things left to move to our new house from North Dakota: our dining room table, a bed for Ms. Crazy Preschooler, and a set of bight pink dressers that Auntie Amy gave Ms. CP and The Banana. We decided to rent a uhaul to bring…

We love her that Auntie Dot, who reads books in with a tantalizing narrative voice, who picks small people up and swings them around, who splashes in the swimming pool, who tromps out to the barn with a parade of preschoolers behind to feed horses. We loved seeing Auntie Dot…

Walking out her house to get her mail, my grandmother, age 82, spiffed up in the darkest glasses she could find, shouted over to where my aunties and I were standing, “Don’t I look just like Tom Cruise!”

These images are from just a hair up the road north of my parents’ farm in North Dakota. When we visit, I love seeing unobstructed rolling hills, and brown-eyed-Susan flowers grace the edges of the road in abundance during late July and August.

We arrived back from vacation just in time for the release of the last Harry Potter book. Harry Potter is a VERY big deal in our house, and I had never been to a Harry Potter Release party before, so at 10:30 p.m. last night I zipped off in my…

I’ll be away from my computer for the next week, so posting may be sporatic! Here are some quick photographs I took tonight when I went for a walk on my favorite hiking trail. Nature photographs do not come easy to me! I need eyeballs and a nose to make…