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January 17, 2026

“Every child deserves…”

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m reading some reflections by BC artist Jack Shadbolt, and this comment about the loss of childhood innocence really resonated for me: “Every child deserves a modicum of pure ecstatic happiness in his younger...

inspiration / learning / philosophy

April 28, 2024

The joy of being curious

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI feel like a healthy sense of curiosity is the key to living an interesting and vital life. Curiosity is not just something you have – it should be something you do. A core...

learning / literacy / philosophy / psychology

November 14, 2020

Assemble Your Own Belief System

Reading Time: 10 minutesSince my adolescence, I’ve never had a more than objective interest in religion. As a little kid, I trusted my Dad as I recited the Lord’s Prayer with him at night while he tucked...

art / inspiration / interdisciplinary / process / psychology / research

October 6, 2018

Digging and drawing on the unknown…

Reading Time: 2 minutesNot long ago, I revisited an old idea with a friend at work: The Exquisite Corpse drawing game. We wanted to use it as a way to encourage some asynchronous play-activity among members of...

#cca0991 Novel Unit – Lesson 3: Activity 1 – Informal Presentation

inspiration / learning / literacy / process

July 4, 2014

#cca0991 Novel Unit – Lesson 3: Activity 1 – Informal Presentation

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. This is one of my assignments. Novel, Lesson 3: Activity...

#cca0991 Novel Unit – Reading Log for “On the Road”

learning / literacy

July 3, 2014

#cca0991 Novel Unit – Reading Log for “On the Road”

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. After many weeks of transforming course content from Word documents...

art / psychology

June 21, 2014

fingerpainting: ghosted cold, memory

Reading Time: < 1 minute

finger painting: scrubbing colour into a sick man

art / psychology

June 21, 2014

finger painting: scrubbing colour into a sick man

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#StoryMOOC : My Creative Task for Chapter 4

art / communication / design / inspiration / interdisciplinary / media / process / visual

November 22, 2013

#StoryMOOC : My Creative Task for Chapter 4

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m enjoying the MOOC “The Future of Storytelling” (#StoryMOOC). This little video is my response to the Creative Task for Chapter 4 (“Inspirational Week”) The proposition for the task was this: Take a camera,...

Wondering at The Eastside Culture Crawl 2013

art / design / inspiration / media / process / visual

November 17, 2013

Wondering at The Eastside Culture Crawl 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Eastside Culture Crawl is East Vancouver’s own open studio tour. I don’t go every year, but have gone for many years. It feels good to wander through studio space, smelling paint, sawdust, and...

art / design / interdisciplinary / learning / media / process

November 3, 2013

The Future of StoryTelling #StoryMOOC

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m enrolled in the MOOC “The Future of StoryTelling” (#StoryMOOC, iVersity.com). This Massive Open Online Course provides a foundation in the principles of the formats and methods of fictional storytelling. The reasons this online...