Category: Fatherhood
Condominiums
My daughter, yesterday, as we drove past some new condos being built near our neighborhood: “Wouldn’t it be great if the builders put in a secret door that connects the condos? When you got to be best friends with your neighbor, and it’s really stormy and rainy outside, you could go over to their house ...
Boat Street Cafe Morning
My wife and daughter surprised me on my birthday by taking me to Boat Street Cafe for a French breakfast. The meal, the light, and the ambiance, were all delicious. (Click here to view the photo larger.) If you like the work I do, please consider signing up for my low-volume newsletter that I use ...
Back to the Cherry Blossoms
When you’re a freelance writer, it’s easy to get caught up in deadlines and projects and article pitches and finances and taxes and everything else. On Monday I escaped the computer briefly to visit the University of Washington for the second time in as many weeks, because it’s also important to get away from all ...
Why I Love My Daughter’s Brain
… part one million. My daughter is wonderfully imaginative, and for a long time she’s enjoyed stories about fairies. She builds fairy houses out of twigs and leaves, makes up her own stories, and also likes the Disney Fairies stories and movies. We recently watched The Pirate Fairy on Netflix, and it kindled a question ...
A Hazard of Photo Project Work
When I’m working on books, especially photography-related ones, I frequently need to dig through my archives to find images as examples. Doing so has its own reward, reminding me (and my inner editor) that my photos can often be decent—even good. But it has a drawback, too, which is when I get stuck on images ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 