about

I started on maplewood to provide a place for close friends and family to check in on our little family outside of social media. I am interested in technology and maintaining the site gives me an opportunity to stay sharp on new trends and tools in web development, photography, design etc. I also have a notoriously bad memory (sometimes a blessing) and I hope in the long-run the site will be a cherished record of our family.

the back-end

I use Ghost to publish and maintain the site. I learned web design primarily on wordpress. I am definitely not a coder, but one of my favorite things about wordpress was being able to edit html and css to get the exact elements you want. Ghost provides a similar level of flexibility scaled to a very non-engineer like myself.

I edit photos in Lightroom Classic and shoot on a Fujifilm x100s or my Google Pixel 7.