I acknowledge that I live and work in the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Since 1973, Vancouver has been home. A year later, my brother and I opened a graphic design studio in Gastown. As the profession moved from analog to digital, I embraced the Macintosh, riding the wave of the desktop publishing revolution. In 1985, my brother departed this temporal dimension. A short time later, I moved my studio into a spare bedroom, trading drafting tables, a darkroom, and storage cabinets for a Macintosh Plus and an Apple LaserWriter.

For years, I had the privilege of working with incredible clients. My technical expertise led to a teaching position at a local community college, where I taught digital production for 11 years.

In 2006, I reached a crossroads. My doctor’s diagnosis left me with two options: follow the prescribed path or look for the exit door. The choice was clear. I prepared for what lay ahead, knowing it would change everything. In late 2007, I told my siblings, clients, parents, and sons. By July 2008, I had transitioned.

Business relationships shifted. Some quietly disappeared. By 2011, I had gone from fully employed to gainfully unemployed. The corporate world remains uneasy about trans people, calculating risks, worrying about optics, and prioritizing comfort. I had hoped otherwise.

Graphic design no longer defines my work. Today, I am a Multi-Faith Spiritual Health Practitioner with Vanouver’s health authority. My latest book, Then This Happened: After Transparently, explores how and why I made this shift, which expands on my journey since transitioning. .

My advocacy for trans lives and human dignity runs alongside this work. Over the years, I’ve been involved in pushing for the inclusion of gender identity and gender expression in human rights protections at both the federal and provincial level, supporting SOGI 123 in schools, and, more recently, initiating and organizing a federal e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to uphold the civil and human rights of transgender people, especially children and youth. Progress is fragile. Backlash is real. Silence helps the wrong side.

This site is part archive, part living notebook. Click the menu icon to explore the blog, books, design work, fonts, photography, and other projects. I still take the occasional freelance project, but my real work now lives at the intersection of care, conscience, language, and public life.

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Here the link to an OpEd I wrote in 2015 that touches of the subject of trans acceptance. Though things have improved for many, we still have a long way to go. OP-ED

For current writing and reflections, please explore the blog HERE, or find me on Medium and Substack by searching my name.