Tillicum

The singing coming from the monitor in the bedroom down the hall was of three sisters. The fourth sibling – with a cold, white and drawn face – lay dying. The trio sang softly and gently. In a nearby room the brothers-in-laws sat in reverent silence, listening to the soothing but faltering voices. It was […]

It started out as an experiment to capture on camera the effect of sugar being poured into a glass of water. Not happy with the results, the photographer placed the glass on the kitchen counter in front of his turquoise colored water bottle. The sunlight streaming through the bottle and into the bubbles on the […]

As twilight faded and the day’s last light struggled through the shade trees, a reflected spiderweb of branches connecting the pond’s water lilies pads began to slowly dissolve. The pads seemed on the water like stepping stones leading to the far shore. Sitting on the porch of their dream home where they had raised a […]

Never tell boys or girls to line up. For us first-time coaches of first-time baseball players who just hours ago had finished their first day of first grade, we wondered what the first practice would be like. Could we keep these decidedly rough-but-future-stars-of-the-baseball-diamond in line to do anything? “You don’t,” one coach answered, “but you’ll […]