Barry and Tiffany

A weekend adventure in Vancouver to celebrate her birthday, he said.  Let’s bring our best friends along, he said.  I’m taking you for dinner on Grouse Mountain, he said. Let’s go ice skating, he said.  Let me hold your hand, he said. All the plans, all the words actually said (in between the lines, unspoken for…

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet.” William Butler Yeats We rode the incline railroad together, but barely noticed each other in the excitement of riding a train backwards straight up the mountain. We wandered around Lookout Mountain together, but had no reason to interact as we peered over the Chattanooga…

Two years ago, I was hosting my freshly minted boyfriend from Canada so I didn’t work too hard to publish a year in review. One year ago, I was in Vietnam shooting the wedding of Ben and Hien a few  days after the boyfriend became the fiance so I didn’t publish a year in review….

“What can I do for you today?” The man behind the counter leaned forward ever so slightly, making sure the next client could hear him beyond the glass. The glass partition almost made it seem as though he was afraid of human interaction, but his jovial smile proved otherwise. Keegan grinned, triumphantly. “We are here…

When I first met Shanna, I was running around my neighborhood desperately trying to coax my kitten to return to me.  I’m not sure I even said “hi” to her as I raced past her, lunged for the cat, and … well…missed. I wheedled.  I begged.  I bribed.  I stalked.  Yet my four-month-old kitten wasn’t…