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I’ve got to work on my portrait skills, which basically means that mostly Odin and sometimes Paige have to deal with being guinea pigs. So it goes, the life of the photographer’s family. Check out the pictures. You’ll get the idea that Odin is pretty interested in the flash.

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for those who are aware of the kampala riots, this is an excerpt from an email i just wrote to my brother:
we are okay in kampala.  most of the rioting was in the city center (which we are very isolated from in mbuya) or along the roads as you enter into baganda from other regions [...]

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parents in the u.s. stress about all the vaccines for their kids and the potential side effects and do i really need to give my kid all of this? i stress about whether or not my kid’s gotten enough vaccines. polio, pertussis, measles…diseases of a century ago in the u.s., but in [...]

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odin’s exclusively breastfed. and i don’t mean that he only gets breastmilk (although he does). i mean, literally, he’s only fed from the breast. he’s 5 months old and has had two bottles in his life. i realize that at some point this will change, but for now i love it [...]

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odin crossed the equator yesterday and we blew it by not photographing the momentous occasion. some people wait decades before they can say they’ve been at the equator; it took odin 4 months. goes to show how commonplace it is for us to go back and forth, north to south, that i didn’t [...]

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the major holiday season is here. of course in uganda, unless you invest in celebrating, that holiday season can completely pass you by since there are no seasonal changes to indicate the passing of fall and the onset of cold and snow and winter. halloween, the now harbinger of retail holiday chaos, doesn’t [...]

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we woke the boy up at 4:30 wednesday morning to watch history. it was a good way to start the day. we joined an all-night party of americans, ugandans and others in town to watch live CNN broadcast of the results. within minutes of obama’s victory being called we’d received several sms [...]

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today is odin’s 11-week birthday anniversary.  the first i’d heard of the birthday anniversary tradition was when we were in thailand in june, 2007 during the king’s 80th birthday anniversary celebration.  i like the concept because truly there’s only one birthday - the actual day of the birth.  every one thereafter is an anniversary of [...]

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odin’s first 9 weeks of life, we lived in 4 different places. now that we’re home and settled into our own space, we’re working on some routines. i hear babies like routines so we’re trying them out. pictures inside of the latest.

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combining work and motherhood is never easy, so i am taking the “take your child to work day” concept as far as i can and bringing odin with me to work at every reasonable opportunity. so far, he’s presented to donors, participated in international conference calls, revised budgets, and developed program management plans like [...]

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