The sun comes up this morning and I crawl out of my warm bed and go to the window.  The sea with its constant movement and the sky with its every changing light and cloud patterns. Out my window never looks the same from day to day. I love that about living by the sea ..read more

I wake before dawn to total silence. The wind has stopped howling. It no longer shakes the cottage windows. The surf has ceased to be wild with its nervous energy.  I open my eyes and breath. My head hurts from lack of sleep but I am relieved to have the silence.  The ocean is nothing ..read more

This summer threw me a few curve balls that I am still working through. AND this summer I experienced many amazingly magical moments. This one evening in late August was one to remember. She chose the location and I trusted her to find the perfect spot for her. She spent the afternoon picking up some ..read more

Manifesting… I always pictured him sitting outside of a run down shack with no screens in the windows under the hot sun. He wore a pair of shorts and no shirt and he held a rocks glass half full of scotch. He sat in an old wooden chair. The chair was tipped on its back ..read more

“To see my body like this, so flowing and peaceful, amazes me. This is one of my first experiences cherishing and appreciating myself and my body in this way! I feel blessed that you were able to create this sacred space for me to tune into my body and my soul’s rhythm and have this ..read more

I started to type, “Hands” as the title for this post and realized I had done a post with the exact same name a few years ago! My love, maybe obsession, with hands goes back much further though. I remember being in high school and girlfriends and I would talk about our “must haves” in ..read more

“I don’t remember how I met her but it’s been a beautiful knowing friendship since then. She’s wise and we have so many similar interests, experiences and viewpoints. She can hear what I say and then ask the right questions.  I wish I remembered how I met her but maybe that is part of the magic.  We were Zooming to talk about edits in her book where she interviewed me 2 1/2 years ago for her project called, “What Now?” where I provided two images that helped me to remember what I didn’t want to forget coming out of Covid. When I read back the interview to edit, I realized exactly wha ..read more

“The picture on the lid of my beautiful, complicated puzzle is dark on one side and bright warm light on the other. My dark side is mysterious and moody with secrets hiding in the shadows that can barely be seen, some unknown but that’s where the answers lie, that’s where the lessons are learned, that’s where the pain is felt so strongly that the joy on the “other” side can be so completely tasted, felt, rejoiced in. Navy blue sky, a sliver of a waning moon, women dancing naked by the firelight, holding hands and singing.  Fireflies flicker and old wounds lay on the sacred ground. The wo ..read more

I woke before dawn as if from a dream state, maybe from a week of Covid, maybe from other things that have been clouding my mind. All I could hear was silence outside my window. I slipped on cozy clothes and went to the upstairs door window. It was snowing. I lit the candles and made coffee and stared out into the blue darkness watching the flakes flutter by the window. When dawn broke, I bundled up like a little girl, pulling my wool hat down over my forehead and traipsed down, down to the sea. Every rock and crevice ahead of me, all the way to the green gray water was covered with a layer o ..read more

The 2023 Women In Water session season has come to a close. I look forward to it all year long, plan for it, brainstorm and dream. It’s here and it’s a beautiful thing, and then we put the shallow pool and the cheese cloth away for another year. It’s really much like summers here in Maine, short and sweet. This one has been rather wet too which impacted our water sessions early on as, unlike a regular portrait session, its nice to have that glitter of gorgeous light coming through the trees and reflecting off the water. Pure magic… This morning, my Women In Water session books are gently clos ..read more