Category: Family Life

July 15, 2024

Canoes and Color Wars

Silas went to a week of sleep-away camp for the first time. When people asked…

July 9, 2024

Petra’s art has taken some new directions in the past few months. She’s experimenting with…

July 4, 2024

Petra’s been taking pottery lessons with Ros O’Brien for nearly two years now. In that…

June 27, 2024

I’m writing this up because Silas said, “Making the Hal video was a major event…

June 8, 2024

The photos are mostly by my mom and me, plus some pet photography by Petra…

April 8, 2024

Several of these images are by my mom and step-dad, but I don’t remember which,…

March 30, 2024

We started a lot of traditions imagining that people would…outgrow them. Elaborate Halloween costumes…wild birthday…

December 31, 2023

December felt like the longest month I’ve had in quite a while. It started out…

December 19, 2023

This is a post about our family’s recent car accident. It does not contain any…

November 10, 2023

I spent a few weeks in Grand Haven, MI, working on a production of Measure…