Musings

Someone might take something from this as I did, Maya Angelou’s beautiful reading of her poem Still I rise. She opens this poetry reading with the following words, “The issues that which face us all is not how to survive, obviously we are doing that, but really how to thrive. Really. Thrive with some passion,…

I wrote this as part of another post. But the reason I wrote that post at all was because of this. So it should be on it’s own. I don’t even remember adding album Slow Air by Still Corners to my playlist. I thought my daughter introduced me to it, but no. Because it’s not…

I don’t know how I stumbled upon Hi Ren, but I was absolutely transfixed. I could image being in a darkened theatre seeing this on the stage, feeling that electrical chill of the silence in the aftermath of a performance like this would bring, the long pause before the deafening applause. I just love it…

I’ve had parts of thisStill Corners — Slow Air album on repeat to the extent that I thought I was dreaming it, and would catch myself with a mishmash of fragments in my head. Which one is that fragment from, the sad one? The hopeful one? And why that one? Is my subconscious trying to…

Sometimes, the “high road” is just a lonely, uphill walk.

I would have been 7 or 8 years old when this picture was taken of me by my elder sister. We were on a family camping trip out west; my father was taking photographs across Canada for landscape paintings he might later paint. I had written a whole thing around it. Felt it was better…

It’s the time of day that if you have the lights turned on, it looks dark outside.  But! If you turn the lights off, it’s dark inside.  Twilight. But then outside everything is lit with strange blue glow that makes you feel that right now is a moment that doesn’t belong to day or night. …

Really enjoyed putting this highlight together from the clinic with Ahad Raza at Pickering Squash Club. This is exactly the kind of sports storytelling I enjoy — fast-paced, authentic, and about seeing the visual moments that build the story and shaping it in the edit. I love trying to capture what makes sport special —…

I could probably write a hundred different things with this title. A thousand, maybe. But this is about a special friend I had since childhood. Today would have been her birthday. I have been fortunate to have a people in my life who I befriended that remained friends all throughout my life. L. was one…

This website has gone through many phases, but in its last incarnation was a focus on my photographic work. I really wished I could have pursued was the art work I started. It was, at the time, maybe the most real thing I have ever attempted to do. But with the ever-exhausting pursuit of money…

Had an amazing time capturing the energy and drama of this year’s Hanebury squash tournament at Pickering! It’s always fun getting creative with video in such a fast-paced environment. Couldn’t be happier to combine two of my favorite things: playing squash and video editing!

When T was young, maybe 5, and into princesses, she wanted her bedroom painted close to the colour of this pink dress she is wearing. I did -everything- to talk her out of it. I thought the colour was… well…a LOT, and maybe she didn’t really understand how overwhelming it would be once her entire…