With her, there are few rules. One pigtail? Makes sense to her. Off-balanced cuffed pants like daddy? Oh yeah. Purple and grey striped socks with rainbow striped slip-on sneakers? Why not. Kindie punk rock t-shirt? Of course. This 7-year-old girl has style for miles, from our home outside of Philadelphia […]
A year ago, this would have made no sense to them, and, frankly to me as well. It had been decades, after all. And so I too hadn’t the foggiest of ideas as to what the Forest Moon of Endor was or meant. But there we were, last month, hiking […]
This young lady is destined to do remarkable things. She’s got that air about her. She’s the champion of the world. Someday, sooner rather than later, I’ll be known not as Jeff Bogle, but as this young lady’s dad, and I wait for that day with open arms.
*My apologies if you’ve already seen and read this on Instagram. Here’s the latest in OWTK’s Photos of Growing Up series, a series of posts that will be more prominent in 2015. Promise. In the spaces between her flute practice, singing of improvisational nonsense songs, pleas for a snack, and […]
*Both photos of the newly-minted 7-year-old Mouse were taken in our backyard on June 1 2014 with the Samsung NX30 30mm.
On the way down to see HAIM, the middle show in my biographical month of music, the Bear says to me, “Daddy, I’m going to miss doing this when [Mouse] gets older.” She went on to elaborate, “when she grows up, she’ll want to come out with us and it […]
Not a day goes by, not a single one, without this girl amazing me. It’s not always a grand gesture, something recordable with modern technology. Not always something to slap onto Instagram. She might look over her shoulder at me with wise eyes or a wry smile or pretend to […]
I keep looking at this one photo, again and again, with the hope that my oldest daughter’s sense of joy and excitement about sharing with me her accomplishments, attempts, struggles, and failures never ever wanes.
