Snaps: My Niece Elle Has Mad Personality

I love my baby niece Elle. Even though she’s 1 year old, you can already tell that she is going to be a dynamic force of nature. She has what I like to call “mad attitude” and a very strong personality.

At Elle’s first Thanksgiving last fall, she spent hours pushing her little cart around, charming everyone to burst into spontaneous “oohs” and “ahhhs.” While the rest of the family dined at the adults table, I was on the floor documenting some serious ‘tude.

Spring Cleaning My Past, Remembering My Future

After 13 years in their Carmichael “dream” house, my mother and stepfather are moving. This weekend they asked me to look through their storage for my childhood items that I wanted to save. I haven’t seen some of these items in over 10 years.

After a lot of agonizing, I’m shipping everything back to NYC because I’m not quite ready to let go, nor do I think I should have to. My entire young life somehow fits into three giant crates. I found toys, my first zines and comics, journals I had forgotten I ever written, and my first musical instrument. Life is a strange dream.

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