I know Houston. Like know it know it. It’s a familiarity that can only come from a lifetime of shopping and eating and sneaking around and getting lost in a place. I’ll never know San Antonio in that way, but since moving here a little over three months ago, I’ve made it my part time job […]
Grief didn’t play by the rules. He lied silently in waiting minutes after the words met my ears. He tucked himself underneath the table where I sat as my kids came running in with their laughs and requests and general weekendy behavior. When I flew home the following morning to be with my family, he […]
I remember a time when I truly dressed for me. Not for a job or for the attention of a boy or for my mother or the clique-y PTO moms. My style was my own. It took me a while to get there – I’d say around my senior year of high school. But when […]
Before the endless complaining about the heat while refusing to remove the sweater. Before the eye-rolling at every word uttered by little brother. Before my begging them not to order the thing I knew they wouldn’t like and them ignoring me and then pouting because guess what, they didn’t like it. Before the youngest had […]
Back in January, I was commissioned by a children’s clothing company based in New York to photograph one of their contest winners who happened to live here in Houston. They loved the photos so much that they asked if I’d be willing to do the same with my own children. I said yes thinking surely […]
