Cutest Baby Ever

I’m not biased at all.

Our Little Actress!

My niece, Cierra, was in a play put on by the Ypsilanti Youth Theatre (The Final Frontier. It was complete chaos, making it perfect for children.) She played a photon named Ped and a Darlek (no, not a Dalek, a Darlek). The Darlek pictures didn’t work at all, but the photon ones are pretty funny.

I hope she does more, she is a natural.

Niece

And here is Imani, who is, quite simply one of the most delightful human beings to grace the earth.

She’s graduating high school in a month.

Nephew

I’m not even going to try to explain. Ok, yes I am, it’s been a crazy 3 months of starting a course of web development classes and I have taken almost no pictures at all. But. I have the summer off before diving back in so we will see how it goes. I do have a few digital photos though and a roll of film riding around in my purse (which I might someday have time to get developed).

Let’s start with my nephew, Isaac.

He insisted on having his picture taken with the headphones. I don’t know why. And yes. Green hair. I was so proud I could barely spit the words out. The color has actually mostly faded away, leaving an odd shade of yellow from having been bleached to within an inch of its life. I think he should go with pink next, mostly because it will give my brother a heart attack.

Valentine’s Day

I hate Valentine’s Day. I hate how, when single, we are made to feel less than the coupled. I hate that when couple, it sets up some crazy test, that without chocolate, roses, and/or diamonds, you are not loved enough. To which I say “Pffft!”

On the other hand. This is one of my favorite quotes about love, it’s from a piece I heard many years ago on NPR, it was a conversation between Matthew Broderick and the playwright, Wendy Wasserstein. They were talking about broken hearts and Wasserstein said this at the end: “I do find the thought that two people can fall in love really humane. I remember, when I was writing The Sisters Rosensweig, that was my thought that here was this woman who was all closed up, and someone comes into her life and that she- It just seemed terrible human-” I love that thought, that love is humane.

Fred, the Wonder Cat

Something completely different

When I was in junior high or high school, my dad was going to teach me to develop film. I never got beyond the winding-film-onto-the-reel stage, winding 35mm on is hard (120 is much easier). If you don’t get it right, you get unusable frames. Unless….

So weird.