The fruits of my Labour Day.
FADE FROM BLACK. I’ve told this part of the story a few times before, so if you’ve heard it already, I apologize. if you haven’t, I’ll make a quick detour to catch you up.
October 2022. I close and tape the last box before the movers come in and do the rest. I’m saying goodbye to the home I was in for 12 years, and not sure what’s happening with the city I’ve lived in for 18. I head back to Africa for another successful instalment of the “Chronicles of Namibia” workshop.
December 2022. I head to Germany. I visit 52 Christmas markets. I fly back to Canada and get stuck on the tarmac in the airplane for five hours while Vancouver deals with the fallout from a crazy snowstorm. It’s a Christmas miracle that I actually make it to the island to stay at my parent’s house that night. I get my bags on New Year’s Day, just over two weeks after I landed.
January & February 2023. Back to the Lower Mainland to finish my fourth and final season on “A Million Little Things.” It really was the best show in town. For those two months, I rented a beautiful heritage home in New Westminster, complete with clawfoot tub. If this is our first introduction, you should know I LOVE a good soak. I also learned the joys of living eight minutes from work. What a treat!
March 2023. Antarctica. This will get its own detailed writeup soon.
April-June 2023. The Mid-Life Crisis Tour continued through South America. More on these stories later.
PRESENT DAY. I come home from my travels to not one but two unions on strike that directly affect my livelihood. Consequently, it’s the same livelihood that I’m not sure I want to be a part of anymore. So here I am, gifted with some time to sort things out. In an attempt to be productive and not waste the time, I made a to-do list some of the backend things I’ve been wanting to get done but just haven’t, for a plethora of reasons. One of those was a website redesign.
I’ve had many iterations of websites over the years, the most recent being the complete overhaul I did in 2020 when we all found ourselves with a lot more free time than anticipated. I set it up over the course of a few days, and there it sat for three years. Not once did I update it. My last blog entry was from January 2021 (which you can find in the archives). My home on the internet was more like those houses you see built into the sides of cliffs; scary to look at. I wasn’t proud of it at all. I was actually ashamed to be sending people there because my lack of care shone through. I needed to make a change.
I started from scratch and built the website you’re looking at (or will hopefully look at) once you’re done here. I can say that I am very happy to have this done, and now I am very proud to have a place where I can send people. I think the images speak for me, speak for themselves, and maybe a couple will even leave you speechless. It will of course need maintenance and upkeep. It will need to be checked, changed, and updated. I could spend days and days and days tweaking every little detail, which would just be an excuse to not put it out there. So here it is, my “perfect enough for now” website. Feel free to let me know what you think of it, what’s working for you and what isn’t. Thank you all for the love and support you continuously give, I truly appreciate it.
I hope you enjoy it!
