Made in Montreal

  Veeto in 2015 At evening and at morning By an enchanted way I walk the world in wonder, And have no word to say. It is the path we travers...

A few years ago, after the death of her mother, Veeto sent me this photograph of the family dining room table where we used to play "sp...

When I was growing up on Oxford Avenue, in the mid-1950s, Veeto was the little girl next door who was my first friend in life. We moved from...

It's mid-January 2020 and winter has set in, it's -18 C today. So far, the winter hasn't been all that bad, meaning that while w...

Here is Veeto and me at the St. Viateur Bagel Restaurant, our first meeting in many years, July 2005 Audrey Keyes, also known as ...

Back in the day, when we were children, I remember visiting Audrey Keyes (Veeto) who lived next door to us on Oxford Avenue. She had ...

Painted on the side of a former IGA grocery store next to the Montreal West train station and just a block from where Artie Gold used to li...

In the image below, my brother's initials ("JM") carved when we lived there, maybe the June 1962 date was also by him: ...

3) Oxford Avenue I arrive at Oxford Avenue where I grew up; at the front door a man’s corpse sits in an upright position, as though h...

Walking on Cornwall Street, in Vancouver, someone had an enormous display of lavender growing by the sidewalk. I tried...

Here we are in the lane behind the Oxford Avenue flats. That's Ica Shainblum on the far left, Audrey Keyes in the middle, and myself on...