I will admit that I rank up there with some of the most uptight of moms — I’m certainly the most fretful parent in my house. While my husband is far more laid-back, I’m the one who worries that homework is done (neatly and on-time, thankyouverymuch), that the bedroom is picked up, that “pleases” and MORE »
Although I’m not originally from Houston, I’ve lived much of my life in this city. It has always surprised me that most people never consider visiting this incredibly cosmopolitan city, especially since it’s the fourth largest city in the United States. But recently, Houston has been receiving some astoundingly great press: last year, Forbes touted MORE »
Earlier this week I got some disappointing news that had me in a bit of a funk. It was one of those funks that required a bit of wallowing, but after a while, I was starting to get on my own nerves: it was time to pull myself out of it. Happily, I did. Because MORE »
My family is small: my husband Marcus and I only have one child, Alex, our daughter. We’re a pretty tight-knit team, as well — it’s rare that we don’t do things as a threesome, everything from meals together to vacations together. Our family is little and cozy, and we like it this way. This weekend, MORE »
The weather is finally beginning to warm up, and I’m starting to get incredibly excited about the summer months. I don’t know why, really: it’s not like I have three months of summer vacation to look forward to, like I did when I was a kid. Still, it seems to me that some of the MORE »
It’s springtime, and about to be Easter around these parts — the time of the year when we focus on rebirth and renewal. I always think of it as a time with so much potentiality in the air, you know? And it could be the pollen getting to me, but I really feel that with MORE »
Last week, I mentioned that I was headed to a photography workshop led by photographer Brooke Shaden, whose work looks nothing like mine. The workshop was everything I could’ve hoped for (I wrote about it here), but there’s one thing in particular that Brooke said that stuck with me. You see, Brooke’s background is in MORE »
This year marks 19 years since I purchased my first single-lens-reflex camera. I’m self-taught, and in that time, I’ve shot literally hundreds of thousands of photographs. I’ve photographed flowers and faces and faraway places. I’ve written and shot a book. I kept up a photoblog for over 9 years. And after playing with my camera MORE »
My father is the second of 9 kids. They all grew up in Trinidad & Tobago, but half of them went to Vancouver, Canada for university, eventually marrying, settling there and having many kids. It’s for this reason that I spent many summers of my childhood in Canada, when my dad would take my mom, MORE »
In my last post here on Babble, I went on a bit of a rant about the recent Academy Awards. “What passes for entertainment on television is deeply grounded in the humiliation of others,” I said. “And it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.” To be honest, I suspect I’m still right when MORE »
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