When I was eighteen all I wanted to do was draw cartoons and be a photographer. Few other things interested me with the exception of fishing and hunting, an odd pairing of passions. My grandmother bought me all manner of Nikon photographic equipment, my father built me a black and white film and print processing lab in the third bedroom of our modest duplex, and after some convincing agreed to send me to a private art and design school, the Académie des Arts de Montréal, afte

I've spent a lifetime of work in marketing communications and publishing, traveling, clubbing, concerts, fine wining and dining, outdoor activities galore, and a myriad of adventures. Less mobile and motivated than I once was, I now spend most of my time in front of a computer with three huge monitors, an iPad Pro, and an iPhone 13 ProMax. It seems that these are my world now, but don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. Combining my various social media accounts, I follow a

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