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(This is the first part of a year end two-parter: Year in review + looking ahead)  2022 was … well… wild. It is hard to describe a year with so many surprises, so many ups and downs, and so many instability. But I’ll try. As we were heading out of the pandemic (and some mightContinue reading “The night before Christmas”

I was photographing a wedding signing on Sunday, and it hits me in all the feels. I’m a sucker for weddings. Say what you will, but I’m a romantic at hearts, and in the world where I am cynical about everything else, I love love. (Also, all of the people I have taken wedding photosContinue reading “Love. Marriage. And Other Fool's Errands”

Nothing new and riveting this time around, I’m afraid. After spending a full week on an all-team-member, all-in-office meeting, one fact hits me in the face. “When someone tells you they are too busy for you or the things you want them to do with/for you; it just means they have other higher priority (andContinue reading “Priority”

I don’t know what has brought on the recent funk in my life, and I was determined to find out. It might be because I was recently turned down for a promotion. It might be because I came back from a 3-week-trip in Europe to the same old familiar, and a province now run byContinue reading “Melancholia”

( This is an introspective meditation about inward honesty) I’ve realized more and more lately that what we as humanity said we wanted is often at odds with what we actually want. Similarly, sometimes we only want “the good”, without “the bad”. In other words, we only wish for “the perfect” that doesn’t exist. ForContinue reading “What we want vs What we said we wanted”

 (No, not the Fall, as in autumn the season, the Fall of Democracy)  As I was walking to the office this morning, I saw the sculpture of the Indigenous Chief on 7th Ave. This is one of the very first photos I took on my very first snow day in Calgary. It’s been 10 years.Continue reading “Before the fall”

The upside of having a honeymoon three years after the wedding, and eight years after meeting a person, is that you get to discover and get to know them all over again. “I know what I signed up for.” And when we are both a lot older (but only a little bit less cute), itContinue reading “The Honeymooners – Literally every day in France: Art and Religion”

Dan’s friend once belovedly called him the “Cultural Slave Driver”. And so while we were planning for the trip, we decided that we would go to the 3 castles nearest to Paris (and by “near”, it’s like an hour train each way. and he insisted “there are 10-13 of them. these are very close).  SoContinue reading “The Honeymooners – Day 2-3: Kings and Queens”

 The Honeymooners – Day 1: Paris in the rain People romanticize Paris. They romanticize the rain. Paris in the rain is made into movies, into songs, into arts, and into memories of people. Paris is extremely romantic in the rain.  Except I am a cynic, and I hate the rain, and we were on ourContinue reading “The Honeymooners – Day 1: Paris in the rain”

This is the timeline of a love story  02/2014: They met, as friends 01/2015: They started dating 01/2016: They moved in together 05/2017: They moved to a new house 11/2018: They got engaged 08/2019: They got married They planned their honeymoon for April-May 2020 January 2020 – with the news about a new disease originatingContinue reading “The Honeymooners – Prologue: Pandemic – A love story”