Neil and I have been living in our new place for exactly one year. It is difficult to believe that it has been a year already; it has certainly been great even with all the problems during the first few months. We moved in last year, on my birthday, which was on a [...]

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Pink (aka Alecia Moore) topped the music charts back when I had first left home, to begin my career, in a new city. I really sided with her intensity and strength so easily recognized in her lyrics. Many of her lyrics have a politically charged message, delivered through a sort of hardened, unforgiving [...]

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My DM said it best when I told him I was entering my third decade of living “Welcome To The 20s”! If 30s is the new 20s, then I don’t want to go. The 20s were rough, but a lot of fun. I miss the naivety most of all; I miss looking [...]

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Neil and I were second in line for the Manda Balla viewing. Behind us was an elderly, Dutch man, who had immigrated to North America with his family following the second world war. He is currently living in Seattle, with family all over Canada. We enjoyed a half-hour conversation discussing films, politics, [...]

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The Vancouver International Film Festival kicked off its festival yesterday. Unfortunately, Neil and I had not the opportunity to view a film last night. I had a shooting class with the Vancouver Photo Workshop in Yaletown, while Neil was entertaining his friends before one of them left to go back home to Sudbury. [...]

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