I think a lot of the time, we just forget. We forget that a wedding isn’t just two people starting out a new life together.  It isn’t just different families suddenly intertwining as one.  It isn’t just a day to mark the future that lies ahead. A wedding isn’t just the beginning of a story…it’s […]

Throughout all of history, water has brought us together. We build cities along its coasts so we can be tied to one another.  We use it’s passages to link us in ways that nothing else can.  And we use its direction to carry us home. Water brings people together. And it was along the shores […]

My kids and I have a favourite place we go to every summer; a beach along the Ottawa River.  For ten weeks out of the year, the back of our car is full of beach toys, piles of sand and the smell of damp bathing suits.  We usually head out in the mornings – sometime […]

I feel like the most memorable people in our lives go back to the very beginning.  Or, at least our memories of them do.  I believe that we remember the very first moments in which they became a part of our lives and even the subtlest of details get stored in that place where everything […]

Laughter. It’s what I remember most about people and what I remember most about moments.  It’s the invisible thread that weaves its way through my memory and connects the best parts of my life. Laughter is also what I’m going to remember most about Julie and Vasanth’s wedding.  Two people, so loved and so perfect […]

I just love a good story.  Especially one that weaves through our lives in unexpected ways! Let’s jump back nearly eight years.  I was just trying my hand at photography back then when my husband walked down the stairs of our townhouse one evening and said “Gen, you got an email…your very first email!”  I […]