I came by Jenn’s home on an afternoon at the start of summer in 2019; I was greeted by her and her dog, Cruzie, at the front door. When she and I had first started planning for her session, she was living in the suburbs of Chicago and was in the midst of contemplating a...

I am (and have always been) a person who loves birthdays. I love an excuse to celebrate the people I love, a reason to clink drinks and leave voicemails and treat myself and tell friends and family how thankful I am for the day of their birth because the world just feels that much better...

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time thinking about the names I would someday give my future daughters (or because I was twelve years old and hadn’t thought in a rational way about parenthood or having children, the names I wished I had been given myself). Most of these names were derived from...