Great kids Great moments

This is my much-loved daughter Brenna, performing at the age of 16 on stage at the incredible Winspear Centre in Edmonton.
It's a very special memory for her, her mother and me. A talent show (one of many she has braved) in the middle of a run of "The Sound Of Music" at the neighboring Citadel Theatre in which Brenna had a role as a singing nun. So it was: "Give it your best shot, run across for the performance, and leave Mom and Dad behind to hear the results." She won. And her mother had to go up and accept the flowers and the award.
I was shaking like a leaf when I let Brenna know after her theatre show in my usual corny, "make it a surprise" way. Not because I don't believe in her. I always have and always will. But there was a lot of impressive talent - much of it adult - on the Winspear stage. That she was chosen was a testament to her talent and her promise and her ability to make people feel the music she performs.

A sunny day in Mexico.
Now if I could only
WRITE like Hemingway.

Off the coast of Malcolm Island
in British Columbia
during a shoot for a story
on abalone farming.

One of my rare moments in front of the camera, and a fond memory
of a much loved location
(B.C.'s coast)
and a much loved program
(Country Canada)