Ah, January: the month when, during the long, dark days of winter, we set goals for the year ahead, resolving to accomplish more than we did...

Earlier this summer, I had the honor of photographing our family's first baby—my "nephew", Tolman. I put "nephew" in...

[Photo: Asparagus flowers, which most people don't see unless they go to the source—a garden or farm.] This has been a challenging y...

[Photo: An amaryllis just beginning its life—appropriate for the fresh new direction my own life has taken recently.] Sheryl Sandberg...

Over the years, I've come to realize that though small and unassuming, crocuses are some of my very favorite flowers. I think it's m...

The average American consumer may expect to open their carton of grocery-store eggs and see a dozen uniform specimens: all the same color, a...

As I write this, central Indiana is bracing for a record-breaking snowfall: 5-10 inches, to be exact. Last year's winter was unusually m...

It doesn't take long to realize that I adore this little dog. (Just take a look at the fact that I have a tag devoted to Buster , and yo...

This is what December in central Indiana is supposed to look like: blanketed in white, perfect snow. We sure got it this week! In the l...

As a child (okay, and as a teenager, too), I was one of those kids whose picky-eater tendencies give parents migraines. We had to pick re...

This Thanksgiving is an unusual one for me, because I'm literally between jobs. After nearly four years at a full-service marketing an...

At work over the last six months or so, we've been going through a testing/profiling process based on the book Strengths Finder . It...

We say the same thing every year, and with every season: "Where has the time gone? How is it already fall? How is it that we've alr...

Remember those days as a kid when the school organized a convocation and brought in an inspirational speaker? Everyone loved getting to skip...

Royal and high-ranking families around the world keep painstakingly accurate records that preserve their ancestry and chart their lineage. T...