Mom. Miami Beach, 1950s. My father took this photo of her on the beach, when they were newlyweds. It’s one of a set; the other is a photo of my father, taken by my mother. Being born and raised in South Florida, my Mom loved to be around the water, a love she passed onto […]
“Everything around us, ourselves included, is in constant change. Photography is our means of capturing now, and to remember where we’ve come from.” -Amanda Van Grandma would have been 86 this year. Here she is teaching home economics. I love her perfect cursive handwriting on the blackboard with the recipe for angel food cake! ~shared […]
My grandparents were the repository of all of the family photos. When someone died, all the albums and shoe boxes ended up at my grandparents’ house. There were always old photos to go through when I visited! My grandfather took great pains to reproduce some of these photos. The sight of my grandparents working on […]
Old photos are testaments to time, to memory, to our human history. But unlike us, they can live forever. Me, Mom and Apollo 13. JFK Space Center, 1970. Different times back then. There was no crazy security; we walked right up. And my Nana, who took this photo, had a great eye! This is straight […]
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