When you grow up conditionally loved (If you get good grades, we will love you. If you help wash the dishes, we will love you more. If you marry someone from another religion, we will disown you), you have an adult fantasy. The shape of the fantasy is the same no matter the varying conditions…
One guy I dated has a common name like mine. Actually, his exact name is not that common, but there are lots of derivatives…
One of my clients, a powerful, creative, beautiful, empathetic, and accomplished woman in her 40s, recently told me that she would never ever give…
There was a time when I used to cut my fingers a lot. I traveled to Mongolia for work assignments and cut my finger…
We all come with the capacity to produce shadows. In coaching, we often say that every strength, when overused, becomes a shadow. Or I’d…
Death is the ultimate grief. Or is it? Is it really worse than losing someone who is still alive but refuses to be in…
My father, my brother, and I have all woken up by cramps in the middle of the night. This is the gene of not…
We all have a messy corner in our homes. The corner that collects all the mess, the jest, and the rest. For some, it’s…
In July 2026, a mound of black snow in North York, Ontario, resists heatwaves to maintain the status quo from the big snowstorm of…
As I watched couples dance the Bachata in the Cambridge Square, I wondered, when have I danced carefree like this last? At a friend’s…
I aim to capture a couple’s candid and real emotions over the course of the wedding day with film and digital photography. I love photographing a subject in natural light, especially with beautiful scenery, creating romantic, airy and timeless image
