One of my favorite bloggers from the old days of blogging (2004 or so) is Corrie Roberts who used to have a blog called Callalillie. It was a blog that I found very inspiring and interesting.

I must ask her if the blog is still “live” somewhere.

There were so many high points of that blog. She once found some old photographs on the streets of Red Hook about a mysterious man and his family and she wrote beautifully about them.

She wrote about Admiral’s Row.

Her wedding was also beautifully documented on Callalillie.

We are Facebook friends and recently I saw that she resumed blogging. Her new blog is called Object of Memory. Today I saw this post called Strive and I was moved…

These days I can’t seem to run a race without tearing up at the finish line.  You’d think that I’m weepy for finishing something hard but I’m not – I well up every single time because I’m thinking of my little girl.  Some day I hope to be cheering her toward a finish line of one sort or another, and all the while knowing that bursting feeling that comes with grabbing your dreams.  Big or little, she will find them, and all I can do as a mother is show her that we all strive…and bring it home.

Her photographs and sense of design are wonderful, too. The photo is by Corrie Roberts on Object of Memory.