I just want to go on record, here, now, where and when it no longer matters and no one would believe me, and even the people who believe me won’t care: I came up with calling the decade between 2000 and 2009 “The Naughties”. Seventies, Eighties, Nineties…Naughties. In case it’s not clear why: 0 is…
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Erin Go Bragh: Ireland is About Family
In the summer of 2006 I took my father to Ireland. He’s a Montreal-Irishman, son to that classic clan who can be seen running wild in Duddy Kravitz’s St. Urbain Street. Romantically Irish, as the Irish are, he deserved to go to the Old Country. So we packed bags and flew across the ocean. I…
Backpacking Dad Tries Photography
I like to take pictures of things. I am not good at it. The first camera Emily and I owned together was purchased in 2000 for a trip to Europe. It used that newfangled Advanced Photo System film instead of the old rolls-in-tubs kind. We bought twenty rolls of Kodak Advantix film, usually with numbers…