Sometime I have to bring one or both of my children to work with me. I sure hope they are learning something. -Amanda Laliberte
PHOTO ESSAY: BEHIND THE SCENES OF A MOM PHOTOGRAPHER
Tag: British Columbia
Momma’s Day
Jessica Wood honours matriarchs - in all their forms - on mothers day.
Living out of coffee shops
Tucked away from the city, is my favourite cafe enchanted around a secret garden. Its become one of those places I go so often, I rarely share it
Savanna Todd – Featured Artist
Although it's never grown as more than a hobby, I still take classes and feel compelled to keep using it as a tool to explore composition and my own personal interests.
The good life North of Chilly
Feels like just yesturday I was 17 and sitting in those same seats wondering about my future possibilities as an artist.
Carla Lewis – Featured Artist
Carla and I go wayyyyy back, okay not that way back but at least eight years back in time. A mutual friend of ours had brought Carla to a prenatal yoga class that I was teaching in Victoria, BC. We were both pregnant with our first babies and due around the same time too. I… Continue reading Carla Lewis – Featured Artist
Don’t Look Away
But those of us left looking for our sister or auntie or daughter or mother know that this has been going on for way too long. Why suddenly is it a hot topic? This is something so real, something so terrible and monstrous and bigger than any one of us can understand. And it has somehow become normalized in our society.
Weeds are my medicine
It’s Gooym (spring) and everything around is waking from their winter nap. This is the time of year the tree frogs start singing, the days start to get longer and the nettle is one of the first plants that stretches up. Everything has been early this year because of global warming. I don't know if… Continue reading Weeds are my medicine
Indigenous Resurgence with Jessica Day
Jessica stood strong and proud—wearing her jingle dress and beaded accessories in a space historically rooted and celebrated by Indigenous peoples, yet currently occupied by settler and colonial structures.
LET’S TRADE
Tonight I am planning for tomorrow’s meals and look into our deep freezer and find a couple of deer steaks that I bought from someone, venison sausages given in exchange for some photos, 10 lbs of halibut that was delivered fresh to our door on the very same day it was caught, bags of prawns that were gifted to my husband, more salmon, halibut, crab and black cod that was gifted to our family.
tea&bannock 