Alright, since Daphne (aka my new Canon M6) is in my life, I am intent on giving her a purpose. So I brought her on my walk with Giada last Friday night. I thought it’d be relatively easy to do, but 1) Giada likes to walk in zig zags and 2) I wasn’t sure what […]
My husband got me the Canon M6 I was too chicken to buy. Thank goodness for birthdays, eh? So I’ve been using it for a few days and yeah, I pretty much love it. See here: To summarize my thoughts on the Canon M6: I love the design The flipscreen and autofocus make this a […]
[Do you think Leyla brought enough flowers? Ha ha ha. Loved it.] Sometime last month Leyla and I agree to meet up on Mother’s Day to collaborate and take pictures around the city. Plus, we met up last year on Mother’s Day, so why not do it again this year? (“It’s tradition!”) […]
Not a secret: Andrea Nguyen is my guru for all things related to Vietnamese cuisine. I often refer to her book Into the Vietnamese Kitchen when making traditional, everyday Vietnamese food (i.e. entrees and sauces that go with rice or noodles). While that book covers pho, her latest book The Pho Cookbook really covers pho. […]
Casey Neistat has been on my radar for awhile. I think I first saw him on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter on Twitter and remembered thinking, Who is that guy? (Actually, I think it was more like, Who are these guys with Anthony Bourdain????) Sometime last week, I was on YouTube looking up a tutorial when […]
Happy March! So I’ve been doing a little bit of video stuff lately, and naturally, that trickled into my Mom Life. In January, I found myself with a lot of footage of the kids. Just like how I’m worried that if I don’t create photo books I’ll never see the pictures again, I started to […]
I was in Evanston on Sunday meeting with a client. Afterwards, I had a bit of time to kill before meeting up with friends. Since I was near downtown Evanston, I decided to pop into Patisserie Coralie – a place I wanted to visit after hearing about it on Twitter. [I should have heard about it […]
My brother was in over the weekend to hang out with his friends and (I think) us. On Sunday, we woke up and took an impromptu trip to the nearby farmers’ market. “Do they have oysters?” he asked excitedly. I had to remind him that I lived in the suburbs and we don’t have anything […]
Somehow I finished the London photo book by mid-August, which was my goal (because THREE years after a trip is an appropriate deadline. Ha!). Blurb was ridiculously quick this time with the printing and delivery (a week! It usually takes two weeks). I was delighted at the book’s early arrival and have to say that […]
Yesterday, I became a mom to a one-year-old. (OMG.) We didn’t have a big party (this article that pretty much summarizes our feelings on why we shied away from it). But fear not, we ordered food from our favorite Persian restaurant and followed that up with a Lutz cake (something my parents used to get […]