Annual Family Self Portraits






Lessons from my Solo Roadtrip I should’ve invested the time into a grocery store run before setting out on a solo roadtrip. Roadtrip snacks are a necessity and in the wilderness of British Columbia and the desert of Washington State, food options are few and far between. (Lesson: When a Safeway advertises “deli” in small…
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Stories. Life is filled with stories. The bedtime stories from childhood. The textbooks from high school filled with stories of history and worldchangers. The novels turned to chick flicks. The stories our grandparents tell us. The stories our grandparents don’t tell us. The current events newspapers stories. The tall tales, the fishing stories. The…
Today is a gray day. Perfect for sitting on the couch, sipping tea, writing; all the better for remembering the fun of hiking Elk Mountain earlier this summer. After the sweat-dripping, muscle-burning, lung-bursting climb up the never-ending-hill, we sat at the peak and gazed in awe across the Fraser Valley, down to Cultus Lake, out…
How many of us have ever felt like a failure? What about fearful, do any of us battle fear? Oh, and my personal favorite: insecurity. Anyone insecure? The ladies nodded, self-consciously and cautiously. No one wanted to be the first one to acknowledge insecurities and fears but eventually we all admitted what I assumed: we…
He gave the man a little information, answered a few questions, signed a piece of paper, picked a pin number, and then [drumroll] handed the card to me. My library card. Well, HIS library card. I can’t get one until after all the paperwork finishes its season in the bureaucratic minefield and declares it acceptable…