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The Year of the iPhone

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(iPhone photo taken at the Mummer’s Parade in Center City, Philadelphia, today) Perhaps you read the blog post a few weeks ago about how my daughter probably thinks my iPhone is an actual extension of my body. Since her birth, I’ve used the iPhone to track feedings, sift through forums to help decipher why my […]

Joy: A Snapshot

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South 13th Street, Philadelphia “Miracle on 13th Street” December, 2013 I took this while caroling with friends in South Philadelphia the other night and did almost no post-processing on it. I simply love this shot: the joy in this woman’s face as we showed up at her doorstep, rung the bell, and commenced “Jingle Bells” […]

Philadelphia Macy’s Christmas Light Show: Now and Then

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My daughter will most likely have only vague -if any- memories of her first visit to the Macy’s Light Show today. My own memories of the show (and Santa train ride along the bannister of the Mezzanine level, which no longer exists) seemed distant until I was holding my daughter and watching that old Frosty […]

I am convinced our daughter thinks everyone she loves lives in a small white box.

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When Tamzin came into this world, red-faced and screaming, my iPhone, held by the anesthetist’s assistant, was probably one of the first objects she saw after the doctor’s scalpel. From that moment on, hundreds of moments each and every day have been captured by this phone, which I affectionately dubbed my “AiPhone”. “Ai” in Mandarin […]

Our World above The Diner

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My cousin Ben has always been wiser than his years. One day, when he was about three or four, my uncle and I took him and his two brothers on a trip to the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan. The boys were busy playing on a series of nets meant to resemble large spider webs […]

A Full Tummy

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Wissahickon Valley November 2013 An elderly asian woman with a white wide-brimmed hat paused today to smile at me; I was sitting on a bench on Forbidden Drive, under fall foliage, nursing my child. “What a beautiful picture,” she said to me. “I wish I had a camera to remember it by.” After she left, […]