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September 2020: The images below are part of a work-in-progress called “Unsettling: A Shadow/Land Project” exploring my relationship to the place in which I am now living. I embarked on the journey in April to more consciously do what I’ve always done as a former journalist and writer: Get out of the car, or the […]Read Post ›

Empty…

Alone on a beach…

Talk about writing…

Podcast conversations with three story-tellers… Meet Jeff Randhawa, Jerry Chapman and Karl Sturmanis – three random humans who met at the Canada Games Pool in New Westminster and discovered a shared love of writing. Our conversations about our work since then have inspired us – and we hope they’ll inspire you too. In these podcasts, we’ll […]Read Post ›

Birdland…

The Oystercatcher I remember the first time I saw an oystercatcher. I was walking on the Ogden Point breakwater in Victoria; it was winter and I had never seen one before. A black bird, the size of a crow, stood on the concrete facing the ocean. Hardly remarkable. But then I saw it had red […]Read Post ›

Queen’s Park dusk…

Evening walk in April 2020: In the time of a pandemic, there is beauty to lift the spirits…. Video: A walk in the park…  

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Pandemic photobox time…

It’s the year 2020 during a pandemic: Going through a lifetime of photos can lead to perfect vision, in hindsight. Certainly, unearthing layers can lead to some odd juxtapositions of memories and meanings. But it can also lead to the inevitable conclusion that we live in a fragile world, that our time is brief, and […]Read Post ›

The Oil Sands and the Climate Crisis…

Oil Sands and the Climate Crisis…

UnSettling diary…

(under construction) I am embarking on a journey to do what I’ve always done. Get out of the car, or the train, or the city and find out where I am and who is there. I am doing this in relation to an art project my sister and I are launched on but it’s something […]Read Post ›

Breathing in Siberia…

Short Story Breathing in Siberia… She had pictures tacked on her wall, some of Mark in fishing gear at Summit Lake and some of him outside the mill when it was still standing. Lately, she’d added news photos from Afghanistan, ripped from magazines and hanging from pushpins. When she drifted off to sleep with the […]Read Post ›

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