Very soon, I will be embarking on the trip of a lifetime. We have a month away as a family, exploring culture and landscapes, who we are, how we are growing, how we are changing and how we are deciding to show up in life, and all I can think about is the immense pressure...Read More
My work over the last couple of years has taken this long, meandering detour through self portraiture. It has been a journey inwards, to reflect, discover and to get to know myself as a creative, more so than it has been about anything externally. The deeper we know ourselves, the greater the depth we can...Read More
I recently took a photography course that was offered by two women. All of my fellow participants were women too. This was a first for me! Prior to this, every single one of my photography teachers and mentors have been men. Intriguing. Certainly there are women out there teaching in this discipline, but we seem...Read More
You’re standing in a field. Waves upon waves of golden grass roll around you, long and tall. You cannot see beyond a few steps in any direction. You don’t know what awaits you. You don’t know where to go. There is no path or anything to indicate which direction you should take. Like being on...Read More
Women. We are entwined, interwoven. Our relationships are a complex series of connections spanning generations and lifetimes and blood relations. We guide one another, lift one another, celebrate one another, protect one another. We are keepers of wisdom, passed down when women guide us in birthing babies, when women help new moms navigate motherhood in the...Read More
I remember the moment before every curtain went up. I’d always stand with my head bowed, looking at the tape marks on the stage, watching in my peripheral for the theatre lights to go out. My breath was always shallow, in anticipation and in fear that if I breathed too loudly I’d miss the cue....Read More
Jumbo Valley – September 9-11, 2016 My first introduction to the Jumbo Valley came about twenty years ago on my first visit to the Invermere, BC area. Like many people at that time, I wasn’t even aware of Jumbo, or the controversy surrounding it. But I kept noticing these bumper stickers on almost everyone’s vehicle...Read More
