A boy and his dog by Gordon McLean
I don’t recall what age I was exactly, and I’m not sure where the picture was taken (I also have the nagging suspicion that my Uncle Bill took it not my Dad) but this picture is about so much...
Archive for the ‘Love’ category:
A Story by Barbara O’Shannessy
It is not a photograph of exceptional quality, but it speaks so strongly of the value of stories in our lives.
Let me introduce you to Mary, my first grandchild. Her mother laboured to bring her into...
What I’ve learned this year by Myla Kent
Today is December 2, 2003. I can hardly believe it’s December already. Where has this year gone?
In retrospect, this year has been one of great sadness. It has also been a year of learning (and...
Before the Alzheimers by Barbara Higgens
This is my Dad and I in 1983 in Armstrong Woods in Northern California. We loved to walk in the redwood trees and whenever company visited we’d always take them to the nearby redwood forest to show...
Behind the 8-ball by Ozmandia
Pool has played a very important part in my life.
Right after college, I moved to Toronto. It was quite the change for me, who had grown up in a town of fifteen thousand, and went to school in a city...
Father – Daughter by Frank DiGiorgio
There comes a time in one’s life when we look at something or someone for the first time and are amazed. That day happened for me on September 8, 1982 when my daughter [the first of three] was born....
Language of Love by LTS
The three of us were walking down the slippery, muddy slopes of a mountain in Sapa, Vietnam, when it started to rain cats and dogs. From a distance, we heard a shrill yell calling out to us.
There she...
Bittersweet Memories by Ted Hussey
I try to bring a camera wherever I go to capture events as they take place and to record those memories. This picture was taken by me at the Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, where my wife...
We Have a Memory by Ed de Guzman
She would say, months and months later, after she had settled back into her own country and found time to get the film developed, that she knew I loved her because she came out beautiful in all of the...
Sleeping Angel by Scott Manwaring
My wife is the hardest working person I know. She’s a CNA trying to get herself to and through nursing school. She cares so much for people, that’s why she does such a good job at work. She...