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If you’re searching for a place to meet friendly farm animals near Boston—where kids can boop a horse’s nose, feed alpacas, and throw hay on a cow’s head—our family farm might be just the spot. And just so you have some ice breakers and familiarity with these silly beasts before you do visit, I put […]

Gus needed an MRI when he was four months old. (Spoiler: he’s fine, everything turned out fine.) Our options were to either inject him with radioactive dye for imaging or do an MRI without anesthesia. As great as it sounded to turn our son into a human glow stick, we opted for the MRI. The […]

A Retraction Old Man Winter and I have had our ups and downs. As a kid I loved him. Then I was an anti-winter curmudgeon for 15 years. Then I tried to use him to biohack me into a better person. Since having kids, though? I’m a straight up hater again. It’s not even the […]

Winter family photography sessions in Lincoln, Massachusetts were not something I planned on offering. For years I avoided it entirely. Too cold, too logistically brutal with small kids, and the assumption that nobody wanted to stand in a frozen field pretending to be happy about it. Then I got a pair of snowshoes off the […]

Golden hour light was streaming through the trees on their Weston property, backlighting the ferns and what was left of the fall color. It was one of those late November afternoons where the weather does exactly what you hoped it would, and you spend the whole session quietly grateful you didn’t have to explain to […]

I’m sitting on the floor of our bedroom sorting through a basket of random crap. Gummy bears. Two nickels that are mysteriously stuck together. Box cutters. Three kinds of tape, which prompts me to form a tape pile. At least 20,000 yards of dental floss. Inexplicably two “sunrise” alarm clocks that are supposed to wake […]

I recently photographed these two sweet families at our farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts for their annual fall photo session—and it was their fourth year in a row coming back! The foliage was at absolute peak in October, the weather couldn’t have been more perfect, and the late afternoon light was just magical. After four years […]

The best gift we ever received (gift as in “object given for free,” anyway) came completely out of nowhere. A few years ago, before Mae was born, we invited some new neighbors over to the farm to meet the alpacas. At one point, the mom asked if we had any alpaca wool she could buy. […]

I swear the end of the year feels like riding in a mine cart downhill with no brakes. One minute it’s August 25th. It’s too hot. The kids are feral, running on hot dogs and popsicles. And you’re thinking, maybe summer won’t end this year. Then you blink, and it’s Halloween. You blink again, and […]

I ruined every family photo we ever took. From age zero to… well, probably beyond when it was still age-appropriate. For a solid stretch, I was intentionally making faces because I thought it was funny. Humor has always been my coping strategy, which, in this case, meant turning stress into slapstick. And those photo sessions […]

The week before Thanksgiving, our house briefly became a full-blown disaster zone. Our fourteen-month-old had already powered through six ear infections in his first year of life. In an effort to avoid nuking his entire microbiome with antibiotics, we decided to move forward with ear tube surgery. As surgeries go, it’s minor. But it’s still […]