Hill + Pen

This is Texas here. We stand united in our efforts to keep our nation running. We hear that some of our nation’s leaders are key on defunding the United States Post Office. Hogwash. No government bureaucrats gonna tell us what to do. We southern states are proud. Remember John Wayne? Sunday afternoon Westerns? A cowboy […]

Today I went for a walk, tracking the miles on my phone. I could be walking anywhere. A crowded city street, a sidewalk, breezing past old white farmhouses dotting the countryside. No matter where I am, no one wonders what I’m doing on these here streets. I looked around at the wildflowers growing along the […]

I recall a time, long ago, when I had a young child and a new baby and my life was wrapped up in all the various things that accompanied childrearing.  I felt like my time of going through hard things had ended. The season of fighting cancer and nearly dying and all the things I […]

  Listen, kids.  I don’t have time to go into the history of my Great Aunt Nancy and how I was raised by her and salt pork beans and how this particular dish reminds me of Sunday afternoons in Savanna. Our president is tweeting nonsense with wild abandon. We are in the full throttle of […]

Use a backdrop of whitewashed wood. Do not post a picture of your dusty crap sitting on the garage floor like a commoner. Prepare for the shoot, take the shot from multiple angles, ensure it is well lit, and display it atop an antique farmhouse table.  Nothing says “take this baby bouncy seat” faster than […]