Barnett Newman – Colours

Barnett Newman’s Iconic Voice of Fire I remember the controversy surrounding this painting. In 1989 when it was purchased by the National Gallery in Ottawa for 1.8 million dollars, people went crazy. At the time it was lots of money invested into something that people argued was not art. I was ten years of age […]

Canada at 150

     A golden sunrise cast a wide net over the capital on a warm July morning. It was going to be another day of double-digit thermometer readings.  My spouse and I had a wedding to attend that night. There was a nice gap of time between now and the evenings’ festivities.  We decided to […]

Memory Pub Crawl

I moved to Canmore, Alberta in April of 1999. Upon my arrival there within a day, I found a great pub over by where I would be working called the Rose and Crown. Spent the better part of the first 4 days in town eating meals there. Probably because I was insanely shy and not […]