A smile is worth a thousand words, and maybe more in her case! How else could I tell the story about eight-year-old (8 - 1/2 as she says) Rachel Caliguiri fighting Cerebral Palsy without writing a word. With a soft voice and shy demeanor, she whispered to me that she gets to go to Disney World when she can walk by herself.

Here’s a couple photos that didn’t make it into today’s newspaper from the clowning class at Saint Christopher School in Nashua.

After the interview, Ryan’s brother, Liam proudly set his camera on the dining room table in front of me. I thought perhaps he was comparing the size of my company Canon Mark III to his plastic point and shoot toy. What neat little eyeballs it has on the top. I don’t have those on mine. And it talks too. How cool!

Smile for the camera baby! Now that’s a face only a mother could love!

There’s something about photographing breakfasts that usually turns me off. After all, taking talking-head photos at microphones isn’t exactly challenging. The exceptions are the Wild Irish Breakfast’s humor, and the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. events.