Comets
Exudes an atmosphere of originality and spontaneity, with a motif that is rather dark.
Painting 3159
The hermit in the tarot sees what others see and do not see, he looks at himself, he looks forward and behind…
The Empty Mirror
These photographs are of worlds built with my own hands. The concept of how space affects internal life is central to my process.
Evening Shores
Original Watercolours
Watercolour prints on Canvas
Old Cock Road
Depicts a small pedestrianized street in Halifax, which links Commercial Road to Market Street.
Lost Heartbeats
Bold and high contrast colors intended to be the visual equivalent of a heartbeat, one that is lost because it was not taken.
Detached From Color
Photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response.
Summer Study
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.
in cemento veritas
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
Jellyfish and Microbeads
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
Peppers for a Stew
This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.
Covidscapes
These images were done during our Covid isolation.
Time
Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.
A Spring Collection
A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.
3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy
The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.
Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Review of Pitfall by Terry Kirk
A review of Pitfall from Terry Kirk. Reviewer Mitch Toews, hosted Ms. Kirk’s launch during Plume Winnipeg’s annual literary festival.
Interview With Jude Neale
I had the great pleasure of being able to interview the very prolific poet, Jude Neale, who is on the cusp of publishing And Now There Is Me.
Breaking the College Mold
Do we want institutions to focus on individual status, or to prioritize society progressing and students’ well-being? The answer matters.
Letter to Marjorie
This is a short article in the form of a letter to Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins.
I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard
How Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest work stacks up against his greatest hits.
The True Story
A critical view of the popular “nonfiction” essay type, magazines and places where it appears, and the book version known as the long walk.
Flash Fiction
What is flash fiction? A brief history and guide to current trends.
Mississippi Prisoners Tell Their Stories
A review of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison.
Searching for the Dark Other Side: A Review of Lindsay Hill’s Tidal Lock
A book review of Lindsay Hill’s new novel “Tidal Lock” from McPherson & Company, published November 2024.
The Lucky Chops
The Lucky Chops is a unique brass band. They play funky jazz/rock tunes and often play the New York subway platforms.
Review: Endearing Species
The fiction starts with the citation of reasons for the migration of the Nepali speaking people from the Plain areas to the hilly ones.
The Pulitzer Prize Winner
A review of the two memoirs by Frank McCourt; “Angela’s Ashes” and “Tis.” These were moving accounts of his upbringing in Limerick, Ireland.
Sex, Fascism, and So Forth
A book review of Master Lovers from the small press Outpost 19 in San Francisco.
Modernist Poetry
Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.
Profiles in Honesty
A book review of Writers and Missionaries, by Adam Shatz.
Not my circus, not my monkeys
Visiting the fascinating world of idioms and expressions and how they convey dozens of cultural subtleties and concepts.
The Bel Air inside the Bog
A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
The Last Caller
Hard-living Jack Stone is celebrating another year of cheating death, but his New Year’s Eve is interrupted by a most unexpected visitor.
Old Man at the Cafe
An old man sits at a cafe never touching his beer. An American sits down next to him. They observe each other, believing themselves superior.
El Salvador
When Bobby was twenty-one and newly arrived in America, he met a girl from El Salvador.
Mind Shaft
A young woman and a retired gold miner enter a treacherous gold mine, and end up trapped with the remains and artifacts of ancient people.
Ababeel
I was here in the spirit when prayers ignited hope and optimism within me that my sister was performing Hajj, not mockery.
More Bullfrog Than Prophet
A college instructor, in town for a seminar at the university, decides to visit his friend, to discover that he had died the week before.
The Rising
A little story about a couple of pals.
The Line in the Lake
Two strangers find themselves on opposite sides of an invisible line which unexpectedly guides them to a fortuitous future reunion.
The Marionettist
When playing with dolls gets serious.
Deja Vieux
Martin rescues his mother from her fake armed robberies of bars, while facing down his delusions of huge black crows with metallic talons.
Bootsy
Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.
A Lover’s Vengeance
A sequel to ‘The Devil Made us do it,’ published in Literary Heist. This pirate tale takes place about 75 years later.
Sanctuary
CCTV cameras were in Wren’s lapartment, one of hundreds observing the brain injured residents of the Michigan Semi-Independent Living Center.
The Cage
Two men in cages discuss the same conversation they’ve had for years while recognizing nothing will change for them. They are powerless.
Shade Tree Diplomacy
Life is conflict. While we think we know how we’d act as we watch someone else in a dispute, when it’s us we may not be quite so sure.
Old apple tree
There is an apple tree
At the bottom of the garden
Words and Swords
The battle between words and swords. The infinite power of words pitched against force and violence.
The Cows and the Mud
Heavy rain overnight
but the mud doesn’t bother the cows.
Blocking On Words
A tongue-in-cheek description of a common malady
It’s Bizarre
In memory of Mike Brogden, Professor of Criminology in Liverpool and Belfast, amongst other things.
Reunion Dues
I realized that many people we grew up with or near were never friends. They were just background extras in the journey to adulthood.
winter on mars
a collection of things easier than communicating
All Ana
Delves into the world of an individual living with schizophrenia, challenging the societal stigma that frames their perception as a curse.
The Making of a Poem
I can tell you what a poem is,
and what it is not
Oh so Miserable
Wednesdays it’s raining solidly, the sky is dour and gray,
About the place that makes me so miserable, yet still I stay.
Balkan Women
On generational trauma.
Left Overs
I wrote this after washing dishes by hand one day.
Miracle Pill
A sarcastic description of a TV drug commercial.
Magic land
About addiction and how sometimes being young and reckless we make choices that have bigger consequences than we realize.
could have
i could have wished for wisdom beyond my years,
i could have been detached, amused…
How Much?
Contrasts the malnutrition and starvation that plagues the poor in much of the world, especially among children.