max s. gerber(the latest shot)

on september 23rd at 12:36pm my niece, willamina, was born. so i’m now officially the coolest uncle in the room. (okay, the only uncle in the room.) here are pictures from her first day of life – 7 lbs, 13 oz, chubby and healthy and beautiful! happy birthday, guppy! congratulations to my brother, james, and [...]

going through some of my mother’s files tonight i found this proof sheet, labeled december 10th, 1963. ten years before i was born. the man in some of the shots with her looks like my uncle howard. i asked my mother who took these pictures, since there isn’t a credit anywhere, and nothing written on [...]

in about ten weeks i’ll be an uncle. that is, i’ll be an uncle officially. my brother is having a baby. it feels like i’ve been an uncle for a very long time. even though i don’t see my many honorary nieces and nephews very often these days, there’s a strange sort of closeness that [...]

my brother and his wife are having a baby daughter in september. my father, who lives in new york, has not seen them since before emiko got pregnant, so i thought it’d be nice to make a video for him for father’s day. also, i figure it serves to mark my brother’s first “official” father’s [...]

my mother hates nearly every picture i take of her, but through some maternal grace still allows me to take them. i think if tommy wasn’t here at the same time she never would’ve gone for it. it’s hard to refuse when you have an audience, even for the camera shy.

for the past few days i’ve been chasing a 6 week old kitten around the floor of my office, trying not to get my feet clawed and bitten. i’ve had to move fast and be vigilant. still, sometimes the little guy catches me, even though i’m watching him out of the corner of my eye [...]

today winona lost a long fight with kidney failure. i’d been giving her subcutaneous fluids every other day for a year and a half, but over the last month she deteriorated quickly. this morning i made the difficult decision to end her suffering. it was impossibly sad to see her decline so much, she could [...]

i have a different sort of relationship with doctors than most of my friends. doctors have always been a part of my life, as long as i can remember, though admittedly much less so now that i’m an adult. maybe my parents were nervous when i was a kid, maybe things were more precarious, maybe [...]