About Me
2000-2023
My crazy nieces acting tough and just plain acting.
At the Sooke potholes.
My nephew and his strangulation by his sister.
My brother as 'Plasterman' on the Inner Harbour, Victoria.
With Mom and Grandma 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.
Friends.
Friends.
Wife & friends.
Friends.
At our Havana casa, 2004.
In the old town of Havana, 2004.
With our friend’s son in St. Petersburg, 2005.
Friend and son in St. Petersburg.
For more Russia photos, click 🇷🇺 Russian Spires.
Friends.
Freinds.
At a hockey game in Victoria with my nephew.
On our balcony.
With nephew and my mom 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.
My Argentinian friend tutored me in Vancouver, where we got to be friends with her husband as well.
In 2006 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.
Friend and daughter in Buenos Aires, 2011.
Marking papers at the Gumboot Cafe in Robert's Creek (Sunshine Coast, B.C.).
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.
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 my Italian tutor from Ferrara.
Saint Patrick's Day 2016 in Galway, Ireland. At Dun Aengus, a pre-historic fort in the Aran Islands.
With my younger brother and mom in Puerto Vallarta, 2018.
Wandering the backstreets of Pisa, waiting for the San Matteo Museum to open.
