Archive for category: Family

CUSTOM.

CUSTOM.

December 24, 2009 2:52 am / Family, Photography / No comments

With the short time I had between getting back from San Francisco and dinner with the family for Christmas Eve, I painted a new holga camera to give to my cousin Britnee. With the first stroke of purple paint, I immediately regretted this decision. Her boyfriend Mark had been secretly [...]

 

GIMMIE.

December 4, 2009 3:31 pm / Family, Printmaking / No comments

For those who know about the Series of Unfortunate Events, it shouldn’t come to much surprise my family will not be celebrating Christmas this year. I’m the youngest so we can all be adults about it. I never did like sharing a list of things I wanted knowing others felt [...]

 
PARENTS.

PARENTS.

August 13, 2009 10:02 am / Family, Love / No comments

Exactly 33 years ago, my parents married. They were 21 years old and in love. How did they meet? I’m glad you asked. The Vietnam War was getting bad and my Uncle, a white guy in the army who married my mom’s oldest sister, moved the family from everything they [...]

 
HOMESICK.

HOMESICK.

May 29, 2009 4:48 am / Family, Thoughts / 1 comment

(Sheila trying to bite at her splashes today. Her and water will have a constant battle, I think.) I have been away from home since I was 13. This is when we moved away from this very creek that had a swing where I spent most of my adolescent days. [...]