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I include a free engagement session with all my full day wedding packages.  It helps the bride and groom get to know me, and vice versa.  After all, if we’re going to be spending a full day [...]

There’s nothing like a change of scenery to shake off a grumpy mood, so Friday night’s event in Banff was the perfect end to a messed up day!  I’ve been working with Authentic [...]

My friend Diane and I had planned a back roads drive to see if we could spot any wild horses.  Unfortunately the former Alberta government, and their infinite lack of wisdom, had authorized a [...]

Although a year old, the Huffington Post’s Alberta Road Trips: 12 Places To See in 2014 popped into my Facebook feed yesterday.   I was quite delighted to see I’d visited 9 of the 12 [...]

I’d had ‘one of those weeks’ – filled with a bit of self doubt, a bit of procrastination, and a distinct lack of motivation to accomplish much.  I also knew I needed to [...]

Referenced in movies, and heard via the legend of the swallows returning to Mission San Juan Capistrano, I knew it was going to be on our list of ‘must sees’ when in the area. [...]

Some eighty years after it’s inception, San Clemente is a bustling town of 68,000+ residents situated an hour south of LA, and an hour north of San Diego.  Initially dubbed “Spanish [...]

Dreams Take Flight is a fabulous organization dedicated to “providing the trip-of-a-lifetime to medically, mentally, physically, socially or emotionally challenged children”.  The [...]

Diane and I met at a networking meeting and hit it off right away.  I was quite delighted when she approached me to do their western photo booths for corporate and Stampede events. Stampede week, [...]

Twenty four years ago, following a 4-year stint in the UK, I returned to Calgary not just to see my family, but to introduce my husband to his new home. The day after we arrived, Canada [...]