ideas

ideas

It’s amazing what happens when you shift your mind in a different direction. I am now looking for stories and story ideas because pretty darn tooting soon I am going to be smack in the middle of writing them. I’m super excited. Excited that this three year journey of...

watching them grow

watching them grow

I won’t lie to you. Raising kids is a lot of work. Great meaningful work but also never ending. Sometimes I feel like I’m very negative because I keep correcting and correcting, encouraging and encouraging, just do a little more correcting. But I am coming to peace...

countdown

countdown

The reality of oncoming change has set in this weekend and even little tiny seeds of doubt but I welcome them because before I do anything worthwhile, there are always seeds of doubt.  And so the countdown is on to the end of the year and new beginnings. Thanks to a...

no complaints

no complaints

Sometimes I get tired and things don’t go my way. I am sure the whole world can relate to this but I have made a major change in my life over the last few years. It is a change that is very easy to implement and follow.  No matter what. No matter how you feel. How...

who wants to live forever?

who wants to live forever?

For some reason Freddy Mercury is on my mind and that incredible song by Queen Who wants to live forever. I might have to listen to it on my way home today because I am not really sure why mind would bring it up at this exact moment. But I do have something to write...

beat goes on

beat goes on

This morning we welcome another morning and the opportunity to do things we’ve never done. We can’t waste this opportunity but that doesn’t mean we have to do something grand or visible even. Our days should not be judged by how productive we are, even though that has...

the lesson

the lesson

If I had limited time and could teach only one thing, the lesson would be to never quit. It’s the only unforgivable sin, a dark place from which we can’t return. And I’m not talking about those times we tell ourselves that this is it, we are done with this, only to...

rubber and horses

rubber and horses

It was a full week last week, not that when you have children they are not all full weeks, but there was a little more to deal with this time. My daughter has started riding horses and she absolutely loves it. She loves everything about it and is really good at it....

fiction

fiction

It pains me to say that my desire to write fiction is not working out as much as I hoped it would and that I have not written anything  but that has to change in the near future. I’m not sure why I haven’t written any fiction but it might have something to do with my...

you

you

This morning I am very grateful for the life I have, the life I live, and the life I continuously discover. I’m not sure why I am so grateful this early in the morning, as the snow keeps falling, and my poor little car has a tough time to maneuver all of that snow....

arctic wind

arctic wind

I can’t believe how cold it is and that winter has snuck up on me when I wasn’t looking. The seasonal temperatures for this time of year are around eight degrees Celsius, but this morning my car dash read fourteen below zero and I’m not one to agree with cars, but my...

that afternoon in Chicago

that afternoon in Chicago

I had the pleasure of doing some headshots for the cast of Chicago yesterday morning and early afternoon. Typically I like to have an hour or two with a client and ask for multiple wardrobe options. It’s a bit strange because it is a portrait of a face, but the...

beneath the ground

beneath the ground

I asked one of my students how she was today and she responded that she was ok. I pressed a little and we bantered for a while. At the end she jokingly or half jokingly said, I could not tell, that her happiness was buried several feet beneath the ground. She said...

red cup

red cup

Well holy spitballs. My quiet oasis in Ajax has been overrun with people buying reusable red cups for Christmas. Usually it is me and one other gentleman, doing our thing on our laptops, but day, I count about twenty people along with me, all buying red cups so they...

1+1=2

1+1=2

1+1 is 2.  This obvious, certain and undeniable. 1 + 1 is always going to be 2, but what of it? I am conscious of this formula because I have heard it all my life. Anytime someone is trying to justify something or tell you that something is obvious they give you this...