About Me
2000-2023
My crazy nieces. Above: Jill acting tough. Right: Amandine acting.
At the Sooke potholes: Al, Sin-lin, Jill, & me taking the leap
Above: Nephew Max with dapper Scottish hat. Right: Max being strangled by sister, at Heritage Park, Calgary.
Clark as 'Plasterman' on the Inner Harbour, Victoria.
With Mom and Grandma Young in Carlyle, not long before she passed away.
Dad and I at the Victoria Golf Club.
Dad at the Club restaurant, scene of many family breakfasts.
Wilhelm, Kent, and Rshmi at Thorsten's in New Westminster.
Greg and Rshmi.
Ruby with my badminton partners Sze-sze and Linda.
Ian & Marina
Greg and Ruby leaning out of our Havana casa, 2004.
With Greg in the old town of Havana, 2004.
With Ian and Marina's son Max, in St. Petersburg, 2005.
Marina and Max, 2005. These Russia photos make me sad when I think about the Ukraine war…
For more Russia photos, click 🇷🇺 Russian Spires.
Sharon & Christine at Sharon's apartment in Vancouver.
Christine & Sharon at our apartment.
At a hockey game in Victoria with Clark's son Daniel.
Ian on our balcony.
With Daniel and my mom at Somerset House, my mom’s new abode in Victoria, 2019.
Since 2003 I've been learning Spanish and Italian, which is a great excuse to travel and write about different places —
🇮🇹 Uno, Due, Tre (Rome) ~ Roman Holiday: ✧ Campo de’ Fiori ✧ Outskirts ~ The Blue-Eyed Sicilian (Palermo): ✧ I, Claudia ✧ Il Giardino Inglese ✧ Second Base ~ poetry: Primum Mobile (Vicenza) ✧ Bruno & Saint Francis (Rome & Assisi)
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇲🇽 Howling at the Moon (Oaxaca) ✧ The Gringo Takes Stock & ff. pages (an exploration of empiricism in Guanajuato & elsewhere)
🇫🇷 Le Bijou (Paris): ✧ The Star of Montmartre ✧ The Scholar ✧ The Third Act
Swapping French for Spanish in La Peñita de Jaltemba, Mexico, in 2003.
One of our Spanish tutors in Vedado, Cuba, where we rented a room for three weeks in 2014.
Carmen tutored me in Vancouver, where we got to be friends with her and Roderigo. We visited her twice in Buenos Aires.
In 2006 with Roderigo at the University of Buenos Aires — trying to follow German philosophy in Spanish!
Restaurant & bookstore in a former opera house in Buenos Aires.
Paris & Brussels: two ‘hot wines’ in the cold winter of 2010.
Carmen with her daughter Sofía in Buenos Aires, 2011.
Marking papers at the Gumboot Cafe in Robert's Creek (Sunshine Coast, B.C.) with Wilhelm and Kent (who has a cabin there).
The crazy stuff I made my students draw on the whiteboards. Here, they’ve made an argument about a famous speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V.
With Ruby in the old town of Lyon, 2015.
We saw Nina Zilli in Crema (east of Milan) at the opening concert of her 2015 Frasi & Fumo tour. The shots I took of that night are blurry, so these two from the Web will have to do.
At Blenz with Angela, my Chinese-Italian tutor from Ferrara.
Saint Patrick's Day 2016 in Galway, Ireland. At Dun Aengus, a pre-historic fort in the Aran Islands.
With Clark and mom in Puerto Vallarta, 2018.
This is what happens when you drink too much coffee in Mantua!
Wandering the backstreets of Pisa, waiting for the San Matteo Museum to open.
Cinque Terre in the rain, 2019. Viva l’Italia!