What have you felt nostalgic for recently?
img Maybe it's a September thing, but I got into a truckload of nostalgia yesterday, thinking about two who had died far too young, on top of being my most favourite (and closest) people in... More »
img Maybe it's a September thing, but I got into a truckload of nostalgia yesterday, thinking about two who had died far too young, on top of being my most favourite (and closest) people in... More »
Perhaps not most vivid, but memories of my grandpa are way up there among my best memories. And being as how this is father's day, let me tell you a story: After a lifetime of... More »
Snow. I grew up on the prairies and snow is a given there in winter, not like in Victoria, where I now live. This year we got lucky. Looks like we might even have snow... More »
Victoria's Inner Harbour, view from Wharf St.
Life. Clear blue skies and sunshine; rain, gently caressing or nourishing or hard-driving, and sometimes carrying sleet or a hint of snow; tree-stripping, ferry-stopping winds whispering down to no wind at all; clouds scurrying in... More »
That it's something you put on, like you would don your finest 'glad rags' when you're expecting company or getting ready to go to church. That the tongue says one thing, and the actions say... More »
Standing up in a crib and hearing a visiting great-aunt who was a stranger to me tell me she was going to take me home with her. I was terrified -- at that age you... More »
The Last Supper.
A very elegant, authentic-looking Count Dracula at a Halloween ballroom dance party. Come to think of it, I believe that was right around the time the movie Count Dracula: Dead and Loving It came out;... More »