Response to a Recurring Dream

July 9, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

I’m back at the restaurant where I worked throughout university and beyond. There is no organization in staffing, and the customers are smoking at the table by the entrance, and I’m allergic. I try to find someone in charge, but find only cooks smoking in the kitchen. Coming back to work here is obviously a […]

Whose Body Is This?

September 26, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I play with photographs, overlaying images to create a new outcome. When this image appeared my response was visceral. I hadn’t realized how much rage I was sitting on. How is it that state and church still try to control women’s bodies? And in who’s archaic mind is this acceptable? Monday morning rant.

The Gift of Friendship

April 16, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Pippy has driven down from Campbell River with her girlfriend, Sandy and her dog, Sam. We decide to leave the men to bond while we women go out for lunch and some catch up time. I take them to Gabriel’s Gourmet Cafe, where Ric and I ate on our first day here. It is busy […]