Shoot like a Girl | The Table
Day 33: Dallas, Texas. The warm sun and cool breeze wove themselves together like the perfect quilt around me. The night before, I had been here – in this...
Fortunate Fall.
“Tomorrow is supposed to be day 635.”
She texts and I whisper the prayer. “Please don’t die.” I never let her know it in that first year, but there was...
Shoot like a Girl | Uncomposed
Day 32: Austin, Texas. We stood under the towering oak trees as the morning sun played peek-a-boo through the leaves, whispering “new day, new mercy.” Grabbing work gloves, shovels and...
Shoot like a Girl | Diamond (#31days)
Day 31: Parking lot. “Wow, that photo. It’s beautiful – it looks like diamonds.” A filmmaker friend said that as he glanced through the images on my phone this...
Shoot like a Girl | Beautiful (#31days)
Day 30: Arrington, Tennessee. If you were to look in the album “Beautiful Things” on my phone, you’d take a peek into a special heart-space of stories. The images...
Shoot like a Girl |Found (#31days)
Day 29: Solola, Guatemala. I had told the story only three times. Once in Jamaica. Once in Kenya. And now, in Guatemala. It was my story – of abuse...
Shoot like a Girl | Naked (#31days)
Day 28: The Texas Hill Country. And the kitchen. it’s a thing we’ve done for a while now, the cooking and baking and feeding. It started with our own...
Shoot like a Girl | Here (#31days)
Day 27: Nevrincea, Romania. The abandoned cathedral was obscured by trees, her doorways guarded by stinging nettle. Her pews awaited visitors who walked away years ago. Spider webs were woven...
Shoot like a Girl | Simplicity (#31days)
Day 26: Anywhere you are. (there’s something about a coffee cup that lets me breathe) This world is full of fury and flashes that weary a soul and leave...
Shoot like a Girl | Fly (#31days)
Day 25: Bungoma County, Kenya. They sat on the sofa, looking cautiously at the cameras ready to take in every spoken word and subtle nuance of their story. He...
Shoot like a Girl | Prayer (#31days)
Day 24: St Petersburg, Russia. I met her in 2007 at Orphanage 2. People said it was the best place for the discarded to live, because the director there...
Shoot like a Girl | Expectant (#31days)
Day 23: Austin, Texas. We decorated the guest bedroom and fluffed the pillows on the sofa. And then we pondered what it a good after-school snack might be. I...
