It is difficult being a stay-at-home mom. I’m talking about the times when the kids aren’t around. When the house is quiet and I am left to ask, “what now”?

Each day, there was - is - tons to do. But there is no one telling me when or how to do it. And believe it or not, here’s where the struggle starts to come in.

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For those who follow me on Facebook, you've seen my recent story-telling portraiture images. While I LOVE making them, there is so much more that goes into a single image than I first realized. Each time I start a new one, I have a deeper appreciation for each and every image I've created before that one. 

And such it is with many things in life: I don't realize how many small steps it actually takes to have achieved / be achieving the things that I am doing.

When I stop to think about it, I am - WE are - actually doing so much in everyday life. And each of those tiny, mundane things has a huge influence on how my life looks overall.

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I want to start telling less and showing more.

Words are POWERFUL. I adore them. But in today’s society, where attention comes and goes in mere seconds and fights for space in crowded minds, images have a power of immediacy that can’t be ignored.

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For many reading this, tomorrow is an important day. In the United States, it is a chance to vote during an election time that could be crucial to many individuals’ way of living.

But this isn’t a political post. It is a post about what you are choosing to create.

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This time of year, Southern Indiana becomes a fascinating tapestry of warm, rich colors that hang above and drizzle upon locals and countless visitors alike.

Each year though, I get a bit more tired of taking the same pretty-vista photos. As stunning as the views are to experience (wind rushing around my face, birds magically hovering above expansive, rolling hills of puffs of color), the photos come nowhere near to capturing the experience.

I wind up with dozens more images that are beautiful, but that feel trite and dry and remind me very little of how that year’s excursion varied from the previous year’s. This year, I thought I’d change things up a bit….

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How often do messages - in advertisements, in our everyday language, in the news we listen to and the books we read - guide us into feeling unworthy, less than, or even plant seeds of hatred for ourselves or one another?

You probably know the answer: All of the time. Yet do you realize how much of an influence they have on YOU? The answer is more than you think….

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