1 Snapshots #1 (1989-1992)

A budding awareness

In wishing for mysterious intervention

Unmasked gorilla 

First standout

Of storybook innocence

In mourning a passing decade

Fifteen minutes respite

One of a cat’s nine lives

Another grim tale, unexpurgated

Of sweet and sour

Landing on her feet

The sensitive one

When the red soccer shoes hit the turf 

Nova’s miracle of life

Poor old Miss Green

Of wondrous differences

Blossoms on the Burnaby Mountain trail

A toughening up?

Of the unwieldiness of things 

Labours of love

Saying ‘yes’ to the world

A faraway smile

A Lear awaiting the millennium

Judgmental watcher

Competing catechisms

Helpless before the woes of the world

Would that by her tears, the shriveled maize be watered

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2 Snapshots #2 (1992-1995)

A very special birthday

A brief review of fairy tale eschatology

Lamentations of separation 

Home communion 

Paternal bonding

Mysterious visitation  

Of Carlton card sentiments

Of a delight in cucumbers

First word

A little drama

Seeking confidentiality 

A prince of innocence

Struggling with a WordPerfect file

Demands of love and duty 

Having gone the distance

Of fragility

Not a fairy tale 

Before the diamond store Santa

A shadow passing over

Reminiscing before nimbler minds

A snow day tableau

Lamentations for Fuzzball 

Determined to be in the game

Of a fledgling initiation

Paying attention 

In failing to build a treehouse

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3 Snapshots #3 (1996-2002)

A sweetly shared appreciation

A tiny demonstration of mercy

Of a weeping Rachel

A high voltage pre-literacy jolt

Sky-treader

Under the chimney of the SPCA

Inauspicious beginning

The passing of Ollie

Missing Halloween

Wooden words at Safa Park

Confidence restored

A 12^th Birthday

Bad Dream

Two Cordelias

Missing critical goals

In the eclipse of a Christmas tradition

Perfect timing

A portentous 16^th birthday

A trill of anguish

Of the suspicion of strangers

The outgrowing of bathtub toys

Little stings, remembered

Breaking the news

No mood for Khalil Gibran 

Forgetting a miracle

A Cordelia in pink rubber gloves

At the Superstore Gas bar

A paternal jinx?

A promise renewed

Not a happy ‘Quinceanera’

Back at the stone circle

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4 Snapshots #4 (2003-2011)

Briefly in tune

Lesson in tenacity

Making it almost decent

In turning the other cheek

The real MVP

So far, so good?

Lump in throat

Night fever

Of the unfixable

Remembering Mount Beautiful

At Birch Bay

Toothache

Handmade gifts

Bad neighbourhood

Moving out

Of Christmases past

Of critical testing

Poignant glimpses of Reality TV

Emerging character

A moment by the campfire

Of the Costco birthday cake

A photo on the cusp of turning 6

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5  Sleeping Beauties Awakened

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