Money doesn’t grow on houses

Jane Jacobs said this in her 2004 book, “Dark Age Ahead.” She criticized urban renewal planning trends and warned of the folly of stapling so much credit and borrowing onto real estate, she warned of the crash that came in 2009. She warned us to be careful , that money doesn’t grow on houses. Neither […]

Question the spin on cervical cancer

This attractively giant poster was displayed in one of the main campus cafeterias at UBC last week in a high-traffic, high-visibility area sure to be seen by hundreds if not thousands of students. I wonder how much Cervarix, the pharmaceutical company, paid to display it’s ad in one of Canada’s largest universities. Actually, it’s not […]

Slow blogging to slow cooking

(photo by Barbara Ganley) I’ve had the great pleasure to know & follow the inspiring work of Barbara Ganley over the past few years. Barbara came to UBC to do a take 3 years ago as part of a lecture series organized out of the office I work in. At the time, she was leaving […]

Winter moon

The moon is scraping itself over the frosted horizon. Dull orange, a dying ember from a spent fire. A signal that we have rounded the corner and are headed into winter. A stunning winter moon that sends chills down my spine.

East Van

I took this photo on my way home from work. It was already dark & a winter chill was in the air. I climbed up to the top of the Clark hill to the cool light of Ken Lum’s public artpiece. The illuminated sign has become a kind of welcome sign to the neighbourhood. I […]

Babes in the Woods

My cousin Steve was kind enough to make a trip to the Woodlawn Cemetery in Dartmouth to take some photos of the grave of the Nova Scotian version of the Babes in the Woods folk tale. The were 2 little girls (ancestors on my dad’s side of the family), Margaret & Elizabeth Meagher, who got […]

Videos from WIR release posted to YouTube

Pleased to have some excellent video footage from the WIR Release Concert @ The Cultch on Oct 16th. Fabulous work by our videographer…really captured the artistry & energy of the evening. Watch the videos on YouTube.

Rehearsals for the big Vancouver show

I love this band! What a stroke of luck that all of these talented musicians and artists are available for this gig: Lara Kroeker – violin & vox Haig Armen – bass guitar Jenny Beech – drums, percussion & vox Brent Cross – electric guitar Deb Thompson – vox & percussion Trish Rosseel – vox […]