Category Archives: children'sNovella
familyNovella: Gibler Family
It’s official. I’m in the holiday spirit! & I think I can pinpoint the turning point from frosty fall into winter holidays during one particular session: the Gibler family. I had gotten to know all of Bruce & Margie’s boys and their families at some point or other over the last few years, so it was...
Epilogue: fly me to the moon.
How cool would it be to go to work with your dad for a day…in an airplane!? These images of Nick with Myla & Gavin give me a fly-me-to-the-moon feeling. & it makes me happy it has the same affect for Nick & Lenaya
I can’t even tell you how many times Nick has...
fotoNovella: the Bunger family.
Cuanto cuestan estas manzanas? I questioned the man at his market stand about the prices of his produce as I dug through the apple display. These apples were bigger than the usual apples we found on our morning treks to the mercado during my first summer in Mexico. I turned one around in my hand...
fotoNovella: Jordyn.
“Admit it. You have grandma tendencies.”
I didn’t find the observation to be all that amusing, having premature, greying hair, and all: not cool. Because, really: who do you know who wants to be like her grandma at age 24? Or tries to compete with the height of her grandma’s beehive? Or makes her grandma’s old...
fotoNovelette: baby Abigail.
“I get to hold babies!”
I was telling my high school teacher, Mr. Miller, how I’d been feeling pressured to get a job with ‘benefits’. Miller paused a moment in his characteristically-wise fashion, then said, “But you enjoy what you’re doing.”
“Yes! I get to hold babies!” Miller has known me long enough to understand my off-center...