Category: Photography
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When I asked my father why, when he graduated with his Ph.D. in 1940, he didn’t immediately begin a job search, he answered, “Because I knew we were going to war.” Apparently that same logic applied in reverse when it came to having a baby. With war looming, their biological clocks ticking, and the optimism…
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My husband insists that Mill Brook House has returned me to my agrarian roots. I insist I don’t really have agrarian roots, but compared to growing up in a Brooklyn housing project…yes, okay. I grew up on the edge of the Michigan State University campus, an agrarian college, in the early 1950’s. Our neighborhood had…
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Late Autumn is the name of a film by Ozu, who often named his films after seasons: Late Spring, Early Spring, Early Summer (despite being best known for Tokyo Story). Western culture doesn’t usually draw such fine distinctions between the seasons, but country life has sharpened my sensitivity to the differences between the early,…
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