Artemisia

Tracing the thread of my favorite Neil Young song through the fabric of my life.

A brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.

Early autist sketches from the front pews.

Paying my respects to the grandmother of my first-born son. Chun Ying, you were sweet as a chicory flower and as strong as the roots.

Wedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.

Tribute to a Louisiana teacher who set this boy back on the right road.

While working on the North Vancouver waterfront as a young man in the Seventies, I win a battle and lose a war.

A coyote teaches me how to disappear and how to tune in to NOW.

I gathered my tackle and loaded up the truck. I had no driver's license nor a fishing license, so I was ready for a proper Texas day.

My Texas Cherokee grandma and I have one last "Big Time" and she gets a job offer from blues legend, Gatemouth Brown.

Love and hate, an old car and a young wife.

A bayou boy meets Lata Mangeshkar up on North Vancouver's Lynn Creek.

A true ghost story from 1970’s Nanaimo where something is not quite right with an old house on Harewood Rd.

How I came to learn my Cherokee clan membership, Aniwaya.

A fond look back at my ongoing relationship with Suzi and why we both “belong outdoors.”

A tale of birth and of control.

A look at the yin and yang of security over a span four decades in the True North Brave and Free.

A missed fishing trip morphs into an impromptu hunting expedition in the midst of an electrical crisis.