Author Archives: a. sprout

Cats & Cameras

I haven’t picked up a camera and really tried to use it as intended in… better than a decade.  My dad was/is a photographer and he taught me when I was still in junior high about f-stops and shutter speed and depth of field. I got good at it too, really good.  Develop my own [...]
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Selfies

Awhile back on Instagram, Wendy made some comment to the effect of me being a fashionable person who takes pictures of themselves.  I got a little defensive, because yes, I take pictures of myself, but I hardly think of myself as fashionable.  I made me really think about why I take the pictures. I realized [...]
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Awake

Totally not sure what to write now that I’ve realized that I need to write again.  There is so much to write about.  M’s diagnosis, M’s big old brain full of smart, H being a toddler from hell, volume always up to 11, work stuff (which is why I pretty much stopped writing and reading [...]
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Layers Like an Onion

There is this point in evaluating and getting help for you kid when you second guess yourself so much about what is normal, and what needs assistance, and what is just a really smart five year old, that you feel like you’ve completely lost track of what is “normal”.  I’ve seen other bloggers go through [...]
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