"Let me know if I'm coming too close to any power lines," the chopper pilot said. "Or one of the other helicopters."...

Assuming I remain employed for the next 15 years and climate change hasn't quite destroyed civilization yet, I plan to retire at 65. Ha...

Here's the furniture the facilities people moved in to replace the fancy MLA furniture. It was still a pretty nice office. Not shown:...

For a couple of days in 2008, I had fancy MLA furniture in my office at the Legislature Annex. Then they came and took it away. Which is ...

Fancy nameplate day. 

It was the summer of 1992. I was driving a parts truck, delivering auto parts for Norwest Automotive, my first job after graduating from th...

Oh, how I miss my cubicle. I hate open office plans, and I always will. So wrongheaded. 

Or maybe I'm asking for clarification. Alberta Liberal Caucus, 2010. 

Sometimes the right idea just refuses to spring to mind. I don't remember what I was thinking when I doodled the PPEsaurus, but I im...

As time marches inexorably onward, I notice that more and more of my colleagues are, inevitably, younger than me. This wouldn't be so b...

Farewell, ATCO, and thank you for three and a half years of growth, learning and new experiences. On to the next thing! 

There's a communal fridge at work that contains several cartons of milk, presumably so my colleagues can use it to lighten their coffee...

Back in 1998, I obtained permission to shoot some photographs from the top of Fort Garry House on Saskatchewan Drive. Bruce and Akemi...

From the spring of 1998 to the fall of 2005, I wrote gardening books and articles for Hole's Publishing in St. Albert. Most of that w...

Ooooo, she gets so excited!  One of the things I love about Sylvia is her inability to suppress her feelings when she's very happy ...

One year ago today I joined ATCO Electric, and today my boss presented me with this very stylish plaque and a nice pen-and-key chain set....