Imperfect Perfect Family Portraits
June 14, 2013|Comments (3)
As a child, I remember walking around my grandparents’ house looking at family portraits for hours. My favorite photos were always the slightly flawed shots because in those, I could connect with these people who I had never known. There, frozen in time, was a young family headed to church with my great grandmother’s cardigan sweater buttoned incorrectly, my great grandfather squinting into the sun, and my grandmother looking as though she’d misplaced her favorite doll. They weren’t properly professionally posed and not everyone looked directly into the camera. They were real. Read more
Multi-generational headaches, heartaches and everything in between
March 27, 2010|Comments (9)
Post & Photos by Andrew Odom
We have all heard the recent reports. About 6.6 million U.S. households in 2009 had at least three generations of family members, an increase of 30 percent since 2000, according to census figures. When “multigenerational” is more broadly defined to include at least two adult generations, a record 49 million, or one in six people, live in such households, according to a study recently released Thursday by the Pew Research Center
Pan and I moved “back home” in December 2008 for a number of reasons. I had had it with living in the big apple and longed for a simpler life. I had also recently closed a business enterprise after mounting debt and an uncertain future got the better of my team. Pan and I were preparing to get married and knew we wanted to be further south in the area we both grew up in. Read more
Visit with The Cotton Wife
March 1, 2010|Comments (17)
Yes, it’s really her! Yes, she’s really real and you are totally allowed to ache with envy because I didn’t just meet her (The Cotton Wife) but I met The Cotton Husband and The Cotton Young ‘uns, too. Read more
