We each have our own pure pleasure ... something that keeps us in the moment and allows us to experience unmitigated joy. For me it is creating portraits, whether they are of a child or an agave or a wave. It is my hope to capture and share this pleasure with my clients and my viewers.
Storyteller is a preschool for homeless children in Santa Barbara and has a variety of programs that help the parents get back on their feet and provide the kids with much needed medical, dental, nutritional, and counseling services … as well as being a first rate preschool program that any of us would be happy to have our children attend. I have been affiliated with Storyteller for the past seven years as a development consultant, a board member and now an advisory board member and have been consistently impressed with the services it provides and the fiscal responsibility with which it operates.
If you would like to learn more about Storyteller, contact Terri Allison at 805.682.9585 or visit Storyteller’s website at www.storytellercenter.org.
Reading Recs
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollard
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
The Wisdom of Forgiveness by the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan