My Great Big Europe Trip of 2005, referenced many times throughout this blog, had the explicit goal of collecting as many photographs of...

Woodlands Hospital, or "Woodlands School" as it was latterly and inaccurately known, was an institution in New Westminster, British...

Please don't get the idea from this post's title that I have physically returned to the interior of Riverview's West Lawn Pavilion. I...

It's 2022, my Portfolio is getting much closer to the point when I can start trying to get some work out of it, and that means the rest...

This is an examination of another of Kubrick's iconic scenic environments, the Gold Room, which is featured so prominently in his horror...

The bathroom in The Shining's room 237 is one of the most iconic environments in film history. The fame of this room is due as much to...

I created a group on Facebook, "a shopping cart saved my life." When I realized I could easily create a group, one dedicated to shopping...

I have removed the latest installment of the series on the Captain's Palace, "Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 4: Consider the...

I'm using this post at present as a photo dump. All pics are linked back to their sources and given a year when possible. 195? 1955, by...

I've had an interesting time researching 309 Belleville St, the building that was the Captain's Palace and is now the Pendray Inn and Tea...

I got my first job as a busboy at the Captain's Palace Restaurant when I was 14, back in 1981. I started waiting tables when I was 17, a...

I was just memory-strolling by reading my old Livejournal page, kept during my Great Big Europe Trip, 2005. I was going to retell the...

I probably should have mentioned this in a previous post, but we moved house on May 01. We are finally fully extracted from the old...

I thought it would be a good idea to summarize the time I spent five months traveling around Western Europe, seeing as how these days I'm...

I avoided it for a long time, but I finally gave in and started a Facebook page. The thing that tipped the scales for me was the ability...

This, as many of you will know, is Rowan, our youngest son. He just turned 12, and I have been his (and his brother, Alex's) primary...

An old friend of my father's and more recent friend of mine, Larry Walske, posted this on Instagram, and it really resonated with me. It...

Yes, the great Wikimedia Debacle of 2021 is over. See this post for the history up to now. Here's the latest, and final I suppose,...

Talk about not enough hours in the day. I have a lot to write, but not enough time for the last few days and at least a couple more. I've...

My uploads to Wikimedia Commons have been flagged for deletion, and I am in the midst of defending them to the administrator who flagged...