Started in 1992 due to a surplus of wreaths and a man’s desire to honor our country’s veterans, as of 2022 Wreaths Across America has grown to over 2.7 million wreaths in 3,702 locations. Their mission extends beyond the profound action of one day; it is to remember the fallen, honor those who serve and teach the next generation the value of freedom, all year long.
Tagged: Arlington Cemetery, Washington D.C.
Tagged: Capital Alliance, DC, Pride Parade, Salesforce, Washington D.C.
On January 21, 2017 millions marched around the world in reaction to Trump’s inauguration. The Women’s March was a worldwide protest prompted by the fact that several of Trump’s statements were considered by many as anti-women or otherwise offensive to women. It was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Four years later women once again took to the streets because a basic human and health right is being threatened by a too far reaching government. The government can’t mandate people get the COVID-19 vaccine but yet they can tell a woman what she can and can’t do with her own body. 
“Hope was a tchotchke sitting on a high shelf along with other fragile things. Every time a train went by, the house shook and things fell off the shelf. Each time this happened they were replaced by cheaper and cheaper things until nothing was left but a collection of cheap unbreakable plastic junk.” – Laurie Anderson
Tagged: art, Hirshhorn Museum, museum, photography, Washington D.C.
In recent years we’ve experienced a new “museum” from the Color Factory, to Sloomoo, to Happy Go Lucky and now the Museum of Ice Cream, these museums and exhibits offer an experience for the new generation. While each has their own distinct concept and execution each foster “IRL interaction and URL connections.” Hands-on, multi-sensorial, picture-worthy and with minimal reading these have become the new favorite, and norm, for museum experiences for my kids.
Tagged: childhood, MOIC, New York City, photography, travel
Tagged: Happy Go Lucky, Manhattan, NYC, photography, travel
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Happiness is in the heart of the feeler.
Memories are written and recalled as uniquely as we each are.
I take them to the city to see the sights, to hear and smell and feel the difference in the air.
A city full of passion and confusion, chaos and magic, overstimulation and isolation, fears and dreams.
My love affair cannot be passed down, only shared.
I see them recall their last time, they note the difference, they wonder at the newness.
Memories are being written; some with magic in the moment and some will await the magic in a future recollection.
Tagged: childhood, family, New York City, NYC, photography, travel
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, BLM, photography, street photography, Washington DC
They don’t know that they shouldn’t bloom, that they should hide their brilliant pink so as to not draw the eyes, the crowds. They are simply answering to the rain and the sun.
Tagged: B&W photography, MLK2020, parade, photography, Washington D.C.
Our Everyday 