May 1st, 2002London, Ontario  Happy May Day! (also known as Beltaine in Celtic-Pagan tradition…)This might be my official favourite day. Woke up before sunrise to hike through the forest down to the river. There was frost on all the new hawthorne buds… As the sun rose, I washed my face in the dew, for whomever washes their face in the…   see more…

April 25, 2002 London, Ontario We are officially done recording……yipeeeeeeEEEEEEEE! I am so excited and pleased with everything that is happening. Mastering next week. Now onto obsessing about the artwork. I have been working for a YEAR (believe it or not) on the artwork and graphics for this album. Much of it is collage work I did on photoshop from…   see more…

March 25th, 2002Toronto, Ontario Happy Spring!!! Had my first day in the studio recording the new album. What a day… George Koller came to play. He is AMAZING. George will be playing a multitude of different basses on about 8 tracks, I believe… and I have even convinced him to sing a Gregorian Chant. We’ll be recording an excerpt from…   see more…

January 16th, 2002Ontario brrrrrland… I’ve been quite the winter hermit … been up at the cottage on lake Huron writing and writing and gazing out int the frozen waves … there’s bunnies and a gopher and a lovely fireplace … working hard on finishing up new tunes for the record … here I go …

December 18th, 2001London, Ontario   Hello strange and beautiful world, It has been such a busy past month. I’ve been recording and writing and housesitting and businessing and running through the forests with Raven the dog. I am now officially on Christmas vacation (which means it’s time to shop and clean and organize and sew and cook and label all…   see more…

October 19th, 2001 Toronto, Ontario I’m in crazy Toronto at my dear friends Katie and Masina’s house listening to the streetcars go crash-bang-boom outside the window. I am o so very tired and recovering from a long long long but amazing week. Had a great time at the OCFF conference last weekend and then intensely began working in the studio…   see more…

October 4th, 2001London, Ontario Hey y’all I am back safe and sound in Ontario after a somewhat insane adventure. I survived a couple tornadoes, the worst bad ass rainstorm I ever drove through, a bad bout of nasty poisonous insect bites and/or systemic poison ivy, my new van deciding to blow up in the middle of the mountainous nowheres and…   see more…

Self portrait at Manassas National Battlefield, VA.More photos here!  September 24th, 2001Sperryville, Virginia  I’m in crazy beautiful Virginia with the walnuts and the wild grapes and the locust trees. I can go outside and walk five feet and stick my head in the beautiful river that runs down from the Blue Ridge mountains. But you gotta be careful cause there’s…   see more…

Goodbye Esmeralda! August 21, 2001London, Ontario  After seven and a half years of grand adventures (and nearly 300,000 km…) I said goodbye to Esmeralda the van today. Thanks Ezzie. You were such a good horse. She really wanted to be driven off the side of the Grand Canyon but I figure they’d probably catch me for that and wouldn’t be…   see more…

August 7th, 2001London, Ontario  HOLY HOT DAMN. it was a lovely 106 degrees on Esmeralda the van’s thermometer the whole way home from Rhode Island. Poor Ezzie’s air-conditioning busted ’cause she just couldn’t take it anymore. It wouldn’t have been so bad but for the New York City bad-ass traffic jams and having to leave my poor guitar in the…   see more…