A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Family Christmas this year in San Francisco, and it started at the apartment in the city — both girls in red for the occasion, the little one carrying her…
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Took the kids into San Francisco for some Christmas season doing-the-rounds. Somewhere in the middle of a line, waiting on whatever we were waiting on, our…
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Thanksgiving at home this year, which meant the table got the full treatment: the green damask cloth under a purple runner, the gold-rimmed china, orange and…
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Halloween started indoors with the costume scrum — a small Dracula in full cape and grey face paint rubbing at his eye, a toddler parrot with an orange felt…
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Claire's birthday party in the backyard today. Pizza on a long table under a fabric bunting, a banner with her name strung along the block wall, balloons tied…
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Up at Tahoe for a late September weekend. From the road above the north shore the whole lake was out in front of us, mountains hazy on the far side, clouds…
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Up on the ridge above Donner Lake for the afternoon, at close to six thousand feet, and late September up here still reads as summer — firs everywhere, warm…
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New nightgowns tonight — Hello Kitty for the big one, Dora for the little one — and they had to be modeled immediately. The two of them climbed up on the woven…
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Birthday party for the little one, monkey-themed all the way down — Paul Frank cake, Paul Frank plates, wrapping paper everywhere by the end. Presents…
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Our week by the lake this year is at Donner, and today was the day we left it for the bigger one. Down 89 along the west shore to Emerald Bay — first the…
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