apple orchard | Matthew Dicks

Apples are possibly the least relevant part of apple picking

By Matthew Dicks | November 30, 2014 |

Sometimes I think that the sole purpose of our annual apple picking adventure is the apple picking photographs that we bring home.

Today will be one of the hardest days of parenting so far. I know I’m lucky in this respect, but there is still a hole in my heart.

By Matthew Dicks | October 28, 2014 |

My daughter is sick. Her kindergarten class has a field trip to the pumpkin patch today. She’s going to miss the trip. Last month she was also sick. She missed her class’s field trip to the apple orchard. Thanks to a couple of poorly timed fevers, Clara is missing the first two field trips of…