May 3, 2024 | A Day In My Life
The link popped up right after I finished helping a client decide on the embossing for her wedding invites. I waited until I finished her order before I checked the text from my mother. She’d already bombarded me with articles about any shooting, break-in, or assault...
May 2, 2024 | A Day In My Life
June 1900 “Are you still going to ride in the park when you’re a Duchess?” “The Duke’s too smart to try and stop me!” I assured my friend Hetty MacNaughten, as we hopped off our velocipedes after a summer-morning spin in Washington Square Park. We both have a great...
May 1, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Here I am, back on Long Island where I swore I’d never return, driving out to Montauk. I left three years ago to get away from my bossy aunts who raised me and tried to micromanage every aspect of my life. So after I graduated from college, I moved to Upstate...
Apr 30, 2024 | A Day In My Life
A typical day in my life begins with me waking up in Venice Beach, California three minutes before my alarm goes off wondering why it’s so dark. Is it three A.M.? Do I have something I have to do today? Can I go back to sleep? Oh, it’s 6:57. But why is it so dark? Is...
Apr 29, 2024 | A Day In My Life
If I could play bingo all day, I would, and that’s what I thought retirement was going to be for me—Bingo. That’s it. At sixty-seven years old, I deserved that much. But then my eldest sister was murdered in her small Californian coastal town and before I realized...
Apr 26, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Aim. Check light meter. Adjust f-stop. Focus. Press shutter button. Repeat. Sorry to keep you waiting, but since I’m told you’re here to learn about my typical days, you might as well witness first-hand how so many of them start for a professional photographer. I must...
