Captures of one those perfect moments that come only rarely and without planning against all attempts. all photos thanks to AmberPerrodin.com

{After a compromise with my wife in how I handle the reality of Santa Claus with our daughters, I became frustrated and decided a manifesto in the pen of Santa. Hopefully through this we can could some idea of Santa while keeping a correct context for it all. Here is Santa’s Manifesto for your enjoyment [...]

Talk to my wife about me and she would quickly attest to my social awkwardness. This awkwardness reaches fatal levels during the holiday season. Gifting giving in itself it a source of stress, though for me even reaching gifts is difficult, probably even more difficult. Case in point: My wife comes home yesterday, excited about [...]

painted by Jennie A. Brownscombe Today begins the month of November. It is a rather awkward month in some particularly peculiar ways. Let me give you a few examples. I am very much a proponent of not getting ready for one holiday before all other major holidays leading up to it are celebrated. I mean [...]

image by Isadore Berg Continuing my series of posts on living simply, I will explore a difficult topic: your children’s toys. It has seemed as if one of the hardest things to simplify in my family’s life has been the quantity & quality of our children’s toys. I have two young girls and they seem [...]

The summer heat has done much to keep me from blogging this summer. Here are a few excuses from my recent trip westward.

Here is last weekend in review. Instead of writing about what Rob Bell, Peter Rollins, or Shane Hipps talked about, I give you the experience in visual form. I feel compelled to muse in light of Shane about how the image will affect your experience shape the message I am presenting, but I will refrain. [...]

Definitely better than getting a lame-o tie. Thanks for all those who were involved.

In a classic example of sibling rivalry, my six year old would not allow herself to be out done by her baby sister. Here are a few examples of her recent work. It seems that a new vitality has entered her work since her summer sabbatical began at the beginning of the week. There was [...]

Ezmah is growing by leaps and bounds. She has recently learned to crawl and also pull herself up. She is also dabbling in abstract expression apparently; here is her most recent work, a unsolicited installation piece as of now simply called “coffee spill”: