by chartz_2j82lc | May 16, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Listen to the story as you read along … I first heard Billy Cowsill, like many of my generation, in the late sixties, on the push button radio of my 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook. The music was not coming through with the clarity of todays Bose car speakers, but it...
by chartz_2j82lc | Feb 1, 2018 | The Arts Collection
It was early in the eighties … and we needed a break We were still a very young couple married at least a decade and a half with three kids and very little cash, We had never travelled out of the country or really had a big time vacation together. Serendipitously, Air...
by chartz_2j82lc | Jan 1, 2018 | The Arts Collection
Early Days … my own roots Listen to the story as you read along … My first encounter with live music and musicians was in our living room. It came from the soundboard of the old Heinzman piano that my grandfather brought home home from town in the...
by chartz_2j82lc | Dec 13, 2017 | Artisan Stories
As part of Canada’s 150th birthday, I decided to get into the studio and do something special. I am very partial to the Japanese tea bowl, both as a functional object (I love that a bowl without a handle warms the outside and inside of you) and I love the beauty of an...
by chartz_2j82lc | Dec 1, 2017 | The Practice Collection
I have been curious lately … For years, I have pondered the dilemma of toxic bureaucracy and how it continues to choke institutions of public service, business and community service. After retirement from the career side of bureaucratic tussling, I now find myself...
