As a Canadian hanging out online with a group of mostly Americans, I see all sorts of things mentioned that I don’t have access to in Canada. Sonic milkshakes, for example, or Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. These are thing that I would like to try, but I guess I’ll have to wait for a return trip […]

January 25th, 2008 | Category: food & wine | Comments (2)

Note to self: Do this. As much as possible.

January 16th, 2008 | Tags: kids, life, photos | Category: life goes on, note to self, photographs | Comments (8)

I shot this as another homework assignment on color - and now that I look at it, I realize that the giant Jamie Oliver cookbook that I bought just for this shot, is still sitting unread in that backseat of my car. Oops!

January 15th, 2008 | Tags: color, kids, photos | Category: photographs | Leave a comment

When attending a Driver Training course, and you haven’t had time to eat lunch, the best time to eat your fat-free Splenda-riffic chocolate cherry flavored yogurt is probably not during the portion of the course in which the instructor shows bad 80s videos (on VHS - gasp!) and prefaces them with a “this might be […]

January 15th, 2008 | Category: note to self | Comments (2)

For four years, I’ve been able to get out of this one particular training course that is offered (or should I say - forced upon us) by my employer.  That course has finally caught up with me, and today, I can’t escape it anymore. 
 Driver Training.  Yes, I’ve been licensed to get behind the wheel of […]

January 14th, 2008 | Category: daily living, as it were | Leave a comment

Recently, I had to shoot an assignment for a class that involved the use of the word “sloppy” in conjunction with an emotion. After getting over the injustice of being given such an incredibly hard adjective to work with (others got “flirty” and “sassy” - but it was a random draw and I got […]

January 14th, 2008 | Tags: kids, photos | Category: photographs | Leave a comment

I don’t know what you’re doing behind those cupboard doors, but that grin on your face tells me you’re probably up to no good again.

January 13th, 2008 | Tags: kids, photos | Category: photographs | Comments (4)

If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain
The other day I witnessed a brittle elderly man lose his temper on the manager of my neighborhood grocery store over the lack of fresh strawberries. Part of me wanted to say something to the old curmudgeon, because I thought he was being really […]

January 12th, 2008 | Tags: life, old | Category: life goes on | Comments (1)