I got into my car this morning and CBC Radio 2 lit up “. . . this is the most requested song on Radio 2 right now . . .” and the best song I’ve heard in ages faded into huge sound. This is Charlie Winston (sign up for the newsletter and get a free … [Read more…]
All photos courtesy of Chris and Christie, our companions to the show! A couple weeks ago, Amber and I splurged (actually, we splurged back in July when we bought our flights, reserved our hotel, and got tickets off our friend Chris) and flew to Vancouver to see one of our all-time favorite bands perform the … [Read more…]
As you can read in the post above this one, Amber and I travelled sans children (big thanks to Alanna and Kyle) to Vancouver to see U2 perform on October 28. I’ve been to Vancouver a handful of times, most recently this summer when we spent a few hours at the Aquarium. I even lived … [Read more…]
This past summer in New Brunswick, I again had the privilege of visiting my childhood friend’s farm. Jean-Pierre and I were little buddies when we were pre-schoolers because our parents were good friends. Along with my grandmother, he and his family represent for me my origins and a sense of home as they are geographically … [Read more…]
This morning, at about 5:40 am, my watch of 11 years stopped for the second time. Amber bought me this Lorus Sports watch for my birthday back in ’98, our first year dating. I’ve had it ever since. Before this watch I had a series of Casio digital watches that would last about 2 or … [Read more…]
My latest film project (which was begun while another current one is still under construction) is a collection of interviews of people speaking about my pépère (grandfather), Uldège Robichaud. This summer I conducted eight interviews and I hope to do another eight to ten before next summer is over (if I can get to New … [Read more…]
Drove 3800 km this summer: Calgary to Kispiox to Squamish to Calgary with stops in Prince George, Smithers, Hazelton (Two Mile), Vancouver, Abbotsford, and Revelstoke). I managed to sneak listening to Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” about five times in the car – it wasn’t Amber’s favorite, but I couldn’t get enough. The … [Read more…]
I worked with six of these fine people years ago. This past summer, I visited the summer camp that I spent summers ’89, ’90, ’91, ’92, and ’94 at. The last three of those, I was a staff member where I counseled junior, teen and blind campers, taught silk screening, rang the bell, washed dishes … [Read more…]
This is a post long overdue . . . While in New Brunswick, we were treated to my fathers berry patches, bushes, and trees. We picked blueberries, raspberries, currants, strawberries, cherries, and some things I don’t even know what they were called. Berries are almost all primary colors when they are ripe and they look … [Read more…]
I stumbled upon wordle.net today and it ended up consuming about two hours of my afternoon. It essentially is constructs word art by associating the size of the word with the number of occurrences it has within a particular text. What you see above is a compilation of the first 472 entries of this blog. … [Read more…]