With great excitement, I’d like to introduce you to photographer, teacher and mama Beryl Young!  Prepare to be inspired! __________________________ As a freshman in college, I had the experience of hatching, like the ugly duckling, from a timid, awkward, and quiet girl into a confident, extroverted, and beautiful young woman. I can vividly remember the […]

This is one of those blog posts that I’ve started a dozen times only to find myself deleting the words and restarting.  Fact is, there isn’t any natural way to bring up uncomfortable topics.  But for the sake of my own healing, for the legacy I leave Pascaline and Blaze, for the generations of women […]

As the new week begins, I wanted to share some bits of nourishment that I’ve received in the last couple months.  Remember the post I wrote back in December “Journey to the Fallow Fields”?   I heard a clear invitation within my creative spirit to go underground and allow for space–time–for new life, new ideas to […]

I know it’s late in the day for a blog post, but I kept thinking about some of you this morning and couldn’t shake it.  As I walked this morning, I was thinking about Facebook, Twitter and all the other vehicles of Social Media, it’s easy to always put success out there for people to […]

Seattle was in the middle of a HUGE snow storm as I tried to make my way home from Costa Rica last week.  My flight from Houston to Seattle was cancelled.  But not only my flight, every flight was being cancelled. The airline said they could get me home by Monday.  Well, that was a […]

I’d like to share a photography exercise for the New Year.  The last couple years, I’ve been gung-ho on making new resolutions.  The motivation behind making new resolutions feels like a loud energy.  In the past, the new SOAR! year would start to build with applications in November, growing with anticipation in December, and then […]