Category Archives: personal

{It’s Personal – being a photographer}

It has been a very emotional week.  And yes it is personal.  I thought about it a little on the way to work today.  Everything that I have experienced in the past few weeks. The word cancer has a very big meaning in my life right now.  It’s personal, my dad has cancer.  But I...

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{It’s my Birthday!!!!!!!!!}

A little story about back in the day when I used to wait tables at my dad’s restaurant Floresita’s…..  It was a slow Monday night and I was a little irritated that I was going to be leaving with under twenty dollars in tips in my pocket.  It was almost closing time when my three...

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Happy New Year

I can’t believe that November was my last post.  Wow.  I’m surprised I remembered how to do this.  The holidays were very busy.  The mini-sessions at the park were very successful and a last minute decision to have photos with Santa proved to be popular.  Christi and I have  planned out our year and along...

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{Second Chances}

Have you seen HER before? I have. STONED, dirty and asking for money. She walked into my studio, sat down and asked me, “DO YOU REMEMBER ME?” Do you remember ever feeling really PROUD of yourself? Do you BELIEVE in second chances? As she was leaving today, she dropped her wallet,  an old beat up...

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{Suicide and a Bridal}

You don’t often see those words together do you? That’s because you typically never utter them in the same sentence. This morning I met a bride at the studio for her bridal session. As usual, we were walking in Downtown Waxahachie when this woman walked out of her car. With tears in her eyes she...

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{Thank you}

A break from my regularly scheduled program here.  My husband and I made it official today and purchased the building that has been my studio for the past two and a half years. On a hot Summer Sunday in July in 2007, my husband and I walked around the charming Historic Square in our very...

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