I’ve asked the SOAR! Recipients to revisit the idea of Self Portraits.  We are now half way through the year, and I want them to take inventory of how their self portraits today differ from their self portraits in January. As I approached my own Self Portrait, I realized how distinct this season of life […]

Warning:  This is a long one with lots of photos!  🙂 When we came home from Thailand, we were almost five weeks behind in homeschool.  The Denuge Fever had changed our whole trip, and it was looking like Pascaline would be doing homeschool through the whole summer to finish 3rd grade.  But there was another […]

…was this little note waiting for me on my bed from Blaze. How can you not love that! Good news New York CONFIDENCE ladies!  Our suitcase of workshop materials was found!  We have NO IDEA what faraway places our suitcase traveled to, but it is back with us.  We are excited to send you a […]

Today is the birthday of someone very dear to me and Brian—and to many of you too!  If you haven’t yet, meet the glue that keeps our company together!  She is the beautiful Genie Ohashi, and it’s her birthday today! Genie’s official title with Me Ra Koh Photography Inc is the company’s “Touch Point”.  I […]

…an intense-intense four days in New Jersey and New York.    Our suitcase with all, and I mean ALL, our workshop materials was lost.  But the NY CONFIDENCE women were so great—they just rolled with it.  And we had a POWERFUL weekend together.    After the workshop ended, we started Monday morning with a baby […]

(warning: it’s a long one) We met 18 years ago.  We were both signed up for a church youth conference and ended up sitting next to each other as the van drove us all from Seattle to Anaheim, CA.  “My name is John Louviere.  Think of groovy-hair because my hair is so groovy, except Loooo–viere.”  […]