YWAM Ships: Media Campaign
Youth With a Mission (YWAM) is a faith-based, non-profit movement operating around the world to share the good news of Jesus through practical helps, specifically with medical mercy ship ministries. Earlier this year, we got to hang out with a great group of passionate storytellers at YWAM Ships base in Kona, Hawaii. It was all […]
Where others have walked
Have you ever found yourself in a place and felt as though you were not alone? I don’t mean like there’s someone stalking you or that the place is haunted; not that. More like you are standing on ground where important people have walked before and even though centuries have passed, they are somehow still […]
YWAM Ships: our next chapter
BREAKING NEWS:Lib and I have accepted an invitation to join the communications team of YWAM Ships. The Call: To encourage and motivate those wanting to know Jesus and make Him known – with documented victory stories from the frontline of people who are living life by faith. The Mission: To train small teams of Field Reporters […]
Heroes and Rogues
Salmon Arm Art Gallery presents: Heroes and Rogues December 3-17, 2016 70 Hudson Ave, NE Salmon Arm, BC Heroes & Rogues is a collection of classic, medium-format, black and white photographs that began 11-years ago more out of my admiration of the work of the Canadian portrait photographer, Yousuf Karsh, than for any real historic reasons. […]
My Date with Gimli
Got a call from the local Film Commissioner looking to house a Yeti. “A what?” I asked. “A Yeti… Y-E-T-I… you know, an Abominable Snowman, albino Sasquatch… I need to find a cave big enough to shoot a movie in,” he said in a tone that somehow managed to make me feel stupid for asking. “There’s […]
Roots and Blues Festival
If you had anywhere near as much fun as we did at the 24th Annual Roots & Blues Music Festival in Salmon Arm, BC, then you may want to check out the slideshow down below! Previous Next
Up the Yellowknife
Jack Stefanyk leaned on his paddle and chewed his lip looking off a rock outcrop down at the river raging below. I looked down at the river, too; and then over at Jack. I looked back at the river and again back at Jack. He was still biting his lip. “Well, what do think?” I asked. There was […]
Building Omega
For the past 10 years, a branch office of Omega Engineering in the BC Interior has celebrated steady growth and nominal turnover in an otherwise volatile industry by treating staff to an annual field trip, followed by an evening of fine dining. The firm’s success can be traced back to partner, Tim Dunne, P.Eng., who […]
Gap Relief: Typhoon Yolanda
East Samar, Philippines – Nov. 8, 2013 – Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hits land in the central islands of the Philippines with wind gusts over 300 km/hr – 6,340 people died in the largest typhoon in recorded history. 100 days later, relief efforts were packing up after only just beginning to make an impact. It’s […]
Rainbow Gathering
Rainbow Gatherings – An open minded extension of the 1960’s free love movement where a joyful gathering of shamans, spiritists, eco-hippies and other counter-culture individuals form a temporary community to celebrate the elements of creation. This particular Rainbow Gathering was somewhat unsanctioned. Held during August 2010 at an undisclosed beach on Vancouver Island, the event […]
Zen and the Art of Grape Harvest
We called only looking for a space heater, all part of a decision to downsize. The voice on the other end of the line sounded slurred but confident, female but ageless. She was selling an oil space heater and it seemed like a good deal. My wife, Lib, got the address and together we drove to a crumbling […]
Blood Moon on the wane
The September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse was the grand finale in a series of four total lunar eclipses called the lunar tetrad. The first three eclipses of the tetrad took place on April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014 and on April 4, 2015. The effect happens when the shadow of the Earth passes over a […]
