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History, Pre-Me
Love, Angela, Oct. 14, 1964
Love, Jim, 1965.
My Story Places
1966 – 1971
Peanut & Brittle
Early Days
California & Engine Joe
Saskatoon Summer
On The Farm
Poppy & Sam
Ten O’Two Cook Street
Reading Pictures, Faces, and Time
Warmth and a Prayer
Miss Pearcy
Lovely Bikes I Have Known: The Little Green Trike
Rituals and Red Tea
1972 – 1974
Landing in Langley
77 Acres
Otters, Dogs, and Dinosaurs
Simca and Sheba
Don’t Smoke Mum!
Scruff o’ the Neck
The Big Litter
Snow Angels With Dirty Faces
Christmas Poppy
Lost in the Wilderness, Part 1
Lost in the Wilderness, Part 2
Are You an Artist?
Breaking Down
Saying goodbye to Langley, Sheba, and her pups
Back To Victoria
Home With Poppy Again
A Day at the Hotel Yates
Little Cons and Tricks
Another Day at the Hotel Yates
Doll in the Family
Dear Aunt Dora
Go Speed Racer! Go!
Choir: High and Low Notes
Mum’s Home-made Robot Factory
Lovely Bikes I Have Known: The Yellow Hot-rod Bike
Poppy’s Secret Stash
Whistling for Joy
Mum’s Irreplaceable Gold Mine
Barbie and Big Jim, boys and girls…
Scotty
The Very Bad Fight
Vancouver: New Home, New Job
1975 – 1977
A Mountain View
Starting School in Vancouver
Mugged for a Dollar and Change
Friends and Fortresses
A Step Up From What?
A Calculator for Christmas, and then a bad time.
Life in Area C
Stranger Danger, battery acid in a jar, and the best ruined stew ever.
Velvet Love is a pimp’s name.
Angela’s Killer Boogie Woogie
Saturday Morning Heroes and Villians
Gentle visits across the street
Poor sad old Lucien.
A Nickel’s Worth of Laundry
Moving Sideways…
The Surrogate Home-maker
Carla, Clay, and Carrie.
Bigger, and Almost Golden
Walkie Talkie Xmas
Go Tell it on the Mountain!
Smitten with a girl and envious of a boy.
The way other people lived…
Technocracy
Drive-by Royalty
Moving up to Park Place
Sunny Summer Solo Time
Yelling over lunch
When Mum escaped with me to see Star Wars
Harvest of Copper
Escape Into The Trees
1978 – 1984
Poppy’s Journey
Angela’s retreat and fall
Going to the next level…
Getting Used to the Big School
Whiffs of Class
Angela, away in different homes
Keeping my head above water
Romance and Horses
Famous Monsters
Hanging Out in Art Class 11
The view from my side
Graduation Day
Seventeen, and untethered: Dad’s Heart Attack
“I heard your Mom went nuts.”
Dad’s long walk home
PediCab Summer
1985 – 1989
Career Action for Youth
Dream, dream, dream…
Stuck in the Middle
Trading on Fear and the Winter Blues
New Art for Les
Getting to the Next, Next Level
Moving Day
Developing Skills and Affecting Beliefs
Reaching Foundation
Psycho Logic, Lies, and Nightmares
Drawing Time with Mum
Who am I? Who could I be?
Bottoming Out
Failure, Lost Opportunity, and the Frickin’ VIC-20
You’ll All Be Rich!
Amazing Grace
Begging for a Second Term
Perception vs Reality: What did I learn?
Scenes from a Life Drawing Class
Film by Gough, Dada by Gary.
Those who can do and can explain, teach.
A Summer’s Reprieve
Welcome to Expo 86
Starting Second Year
Trying to Understand Media
Pixels, bits, grains, and scratches
Meeting my Mum and Dad
New and Old Ideas about Art
Moving to Main Street
Tree House
Growing my Family Tree
Walking up the branches into the past…
Interactive Family Tree
Why climb your family tree?
Interactive Name Explorer
Biographies and Essays
Finding Nurse Anna
I am your father (an essay)
Was Poppy a British Home Child?
Happy 100th Birthday, Dad.
Biography of Angela Huntley Clarke
Biography of James Evan Love
Finding Angela’s Voice
I am child-free. My babies are different.
Life moves in phases
What goes around, comes around (endlessly?)
Finding the Love House
Poppy Shoots on Film
The story of another John Love
A Dream of Cats and Crows
Journalism Dreams and Radio Realities
Chestnut Street
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The memoir and family history of Ernest John Love