All of you who read my wife’s blog know of her recent scare regarding the newborn photo of our daughter. What you may not know is moments after she said, “I need to show you this,” I was online searching for a quick way to watermark every one of her posted photos. I know I can’t stop anyone from taking the images, but I wanted to make sure the source would be obvious (and hard to hide).

I quickly found a reference to Marekki’s Watermark – a WordPress plugin. Now, there are times I love WordPress and there are times I bang my head against the keyboard wondering why I ever chose it. But that night I was loving WordPress and the simplicity of Marekki’s plugin. 15 minutes after I downloaded and installed the code, I had added watermarks to all of my wife’s photos. If you need watermarks for your WordPress photos I definitely suggest Marekki’s plugin.

If you are not fortunate enough to run WordPress and can’t find a suitable plugin you may need to lean on a more manual process to protect your photos. More to come on this? I’ll see what I can come up with…

“Write,” she says as if the command will heal.
It does not quite work that way. Thoughts do not flow immediately to page without first being carefully chewed. The flavors must be savored – the sweet, the salt, the bitter need to be pulled out of the dish then put back together again. Thus the work cannot begin until it is done.

No. I do not write because I am ready or willing. I write for her, knowing she needs to see the words to understand the we part of us is OK. To know that part of her can heal. Just as we must sometimes eat what is necessary to survive – choking down the unrefined to go on another day we must face what we would not normally do. It is not easy making these few words adhere to the page. It is not natural. But it is necessary because I love her.