by minervarising | Dec 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have not known what I’m waiting for. Lights? Done Gift shopping? Done Tree? Check Eggnog? Drunk Snow? Maybe. Maybe that would turn on the “I feel Christmas” vibe. But really what I’m saying is that, while I am deeply grateful for the blessings that are mine and I am...
by Kim Brown | Dec 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been struggling with the same issue for over twenty years. I’m obsessed with it. It’s what I write about in my journals. I complain to friends ad nauseam about it. And it has been the topic of more therapy sessions than I care to share. Every time I talk about...
by minervarising | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Photography
I’ve been travelling for work the past few weeks. Travelling—it sounds glamorous. Flying, seeing new places, working with new people, tasting different foods, chatting with locals. I’ve been lucky that I’ve been able to do all of these things, but mostly I work and...
by minervarising | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog, Staff Blog
Today’s quote had to do with many dramatic situations beginning with screaming. It was a quote from Jane Fonda whom I remember my mother screaming about and I’m not talking about Make It Burn Jane Fonda as in my mother was not screaming because her buns...
by Kim Brown | Nov 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Now that Thanksgiving is over it’s full steam ahead to the next big holiday. And for me it’s even more complicated because all three of my children have birthdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So once I’m done with one...
by Michelle Orr | Nov 12, 2012 | Blog, Photography, Staff Blog
I didn’t think much about photography until 5 years ago. I was going on my first trip to Paris! Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I didn’t even own a camera, so two weeks before I left I went out and bought myself my first point-and-shoot. I land...
by minervarising | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
“I started a story one time about a woman who was living in a tree. It seems she had accidentally moved there, having gone outdoors one day and just not wanted to go back in. She liked living up higher and she liked that the tree cleaned itself. She “grocery...
by Kim Brown | Oct 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Things are changing. I can’t put my finger on specifically what it is. But I feel it when I wake up in the morning. I hear it in the rustle of the breeze through the trees. I see it in the color of the leaves. There’s a pregnant pause. A calm before the...
by Michelle Orr | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been reading a book called “One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career (Volume 1)” by Marci Alboher. I can’t recall where I heard about it, but the concept was intriguing enough for me to buy it. Much of the book contains narratives of...
by minervarising | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I spent time Sunday with my siblings – two brothers and a sister. We gathered in rural New Hampshire to spread what remained of my mother’s ashes in the old family cemetery across from our childhood home. The four of us stood together briefly under a mottled autumn...
