Homes have become temporary shelters I seek refuge until I can return to the places I truly belong. No, it is not necessarily the place I keep my belongings. It is a sense of belonging. After living and working in dozens of digs along the coasts of California, France and…

Should I Stay Home or Should I Go To Work Now? Does anyone else have to remind themselves of the things they accomplished prior to this job called motherhood? I do. Just a few months ago I lay in my childhood bedroom, desperate for understanding of my present situation. I…

Eight measly months of my life I spent living and working in France ruined my life. I was twenty three at the time, recently graduated, and determined to acquire French language and culture before applying to grad school. …

“It is often noted that sociology and photography were born during the same decades in Europe, and, as products of the same social events, one would expect cross-fertilization between what was, in fact, a new way of seeing (photography) and a new lens of interpretation (sociology).” (Harper 1998:55) INTRODUCTION The…

Storytelling is ancient and intrinsic to human experience. Before written language or print, our predecessors depicted stories in visual form. Researchers estimate early drawings found in a cave in Chavaux, France are at least 30,000 years old. After visual forms of storytelling developed, oral tradition ensued. …

“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Speaking with children is not always intuitive. As we age, it’s easy to forget how to relate to children, let alone speak with them. We’ve been spending the better-half of our…

What if there was a metric of motherhood that we could use to gauge our level of “success?” We can probably all agree that we do measure ourselves, relative to one another, relative to the other’ mom’s in the mom group, the mother’s of Instagram, the SAHM’s at church, our…