Tears still wet on my cheeks, but my breathing slowed and calm again, he turned towards me on top of the duvet and said, “Maybe our word is purification.” And, sensing my cringe from behind the pillow I was hugging, he went on. “Maybe it’s the year we really dig into all the things we […]

2019. My word – phrase, really – was “delight in discipline.” At the beginning of the year I thought it had everything to do with exercise and food, but as the year went on it became something very different. Yes, I tried making my overall health a priority, tried to ditch habits that weren’t serving […]

A year ago today I announced I was brushing off my camera to come out of retirement and photograph weddings again. I tell the story behind the decision here. I had some of my dearest friends / former clients share the news, too, and it was an outpouring of love my heart still treasures 365 […]

The lady in front of me kept apologizing for “taking so long” in the check out line. I leaned on my cart and smiled first at her, then at the woman ringing up her groceries who appeared a little unimpressed with the situation given the long line at her till. “It’s absolutely not a problem. […]

  Every Epiphany I seem to get something that turns into a big part of my life. It’s never really out of the blue and always an answer to prayer, usually a “what’s next?” sort of thing. For context: 2015: Decided to spend more time in Calgary 2016: Verbalized my desire to begin a Catholic […]

  My word for 2018 was stay. 2017 had been marked by a move and months of travel, so when I heard “stay”, it felt like it made sense. I felt like I knew what it’d mean to embrace that word as a way of settling into Langley as home again. It turned into much […]