My Portrait, Revealed

A few weeks ago, I began writing about portraits in response to the wonderful show that recently closed at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and I intimated that I would follow up by telling you something…

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Week’s End, Re-charging . . .

Wow! That was a busy, busy week. The academic workplace demands such a change of energy to move from research, reading, and coursework prep into active teaching mode. And the beginning of term, creating a…

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Back to School Clothes

Poor Pater — I interrupted his new retirement habit of reading the papers on-line this morning, asking him if he’d photograph my back-to-school outfit for my blog. He made sure to take enough shots from…

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Blogging while Slogging . . . Back to School

I can already tell posting will be light over the next week or so as I adjust to getting myself on campus four days a week. Besides an abundance of “contact” hours this term, the…

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Bijaboji — A Spectacular Rowed Trip

I won’t say you can’t possibly understand how I felt when my mother arrived for a three-day stay here without a book to read. But you, of course, weren’t there each afternoon all those decades…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.