"Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.” 
Sue Monk Kidd

Stories that matter

Roxanne Engstrom

If you are like me the last month and a half has been overwhelming, exhausting, and a flood of other emotions.  The days crawl by and at the same time I feel like they go quickly in a haze of my own anxiety about the world & chaos of 4 kids at home ALL THE […]

Capturing your life at home right now: 5 Tips

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Katy + Josh and their baby girl Pebbles (their last name is Rockwell) maternity session on the beach in Virginia Beach, Va was on a gorgeous sunrise morning. They are some beautiful people- I might be partial because she is my lil’ sister and that gorgeous bump is my niece. I love capturing you in […]

Virginia Beach Maternity Session

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“Being here in the U.S. is everything for my family,” said Ammar. “It is school for my children, health care for my son, and a peaceful life for my family.”  As I approached this family’s front door and I could hear the TV inside blaring with Inauguration Day 2017 ceremonies.  We were introduced, talked through a […]

“a peaceful life for my family.”

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There are moments of our life when we feel so blessed to be a certain place at a certain time because we sense that we are seeing, hearing, and experiencing is a sacred moment in a family’s life.  Then, too, that experience changes us because we were present and a witness to this sacred space and […]

“I need to fear God because no one is like Him.” One story of a reunion 11 years in the making.

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