Topographs:: 4

Impromptu bakery fresh croissants & macaroons, french toast with homemade bread, Bean dancing to Bananarama before bed, kissing on the couch, sun breaking through the clouds just before dusk, the unlimited possibilities of a cardboard box, video chatting with my sister, lego rocket ships, the first daffodils, revising five paragraphs, a load of blue towels [...]

Topographs::3

A hot shower, sun, an iced latte, David Sedaris in the New Yorker, laughing, glasses made in Italy, wind in spirals, new-to-me terra cotta bread pans, my mother’s smiles, newly baked bread & butter, another latte, stacking fire wood, rain against the evening windows, bare feet.

Topographs::2

A new sandbox. Straight-up sunshine. Dessert to remember (lemon meringue with a flaky pate brisee.) On our walk: splashy puddles, new lilac buds, red barns.

2 months old

Things I want to remember about you this month: Your curly eyelashes. The way you thump your feet. How you put yourself to sleep for naps almost anywhere: on the floor on a quilt, on the couch, in bed. Your coos, your grunts like a freight train arriving at a station. The way you suck [...]

Topographs*::1

*top’o·graph’ (tŏp’É™-grāf’) n. The surveying of the features of a place or region. The study or description of a region or part of something. I am planning to share a photo or two at the end of every day for a while. To remember the shape of things. The texture of moments. And to practice [...]