Behind the Covers Blog

[April 16, 2017]Earlier this year I attended a workshop for artists about using social media and analytics to promote their work. At that workshop...

[April 23, 2017]When I was in elementary school, I slept on a pull out couch in the living room because my childhood home did not have enough bedro...

[April 30, 2017]Ever since I was a little kid I have drawn pictures. I used to get up really early on Saturday mornings, sit myself on the floor at...

[May 7, 2017]I don’t think that I was ever quite what my father expected me to be. When I was a boy, he assumed I would want to play sports like my...

[May 14,  2017]My mom has a huge family—a huge church-going Roman Catholic family. My maternal grandmother had 7 daughters and 4 sons. After I came...

[May 21, 2017]In my senior year of high school I wrote and starred in a play called What about me?  I wrote the play as a way of dealing with my fe...

[May 28, 2017]When I was a young boy, I was best friends with a girl named Tracy who lived down the street from my house. Though she was a year old...

[June 4, 2017]In 2008, I graduated with my bachelor of education degree from Queen’s University. I was enrolled in a unique program called Artist i...

[June 11, 2017]When Stacy, my husband, and I first began seeing each other in 2001, we lived in different cities. Stacy lived in Kingston and worke...

[June 18t, 2017]One night when I was 7, my mother tucked me into bed and reminded me to say my prayers. Growing up Roman Catholic, it was expected ...

[June 25, 2017]I came to Calvin and Hobbes later in life; long after Bill Watterson was out of syndication. Once I had discovered the comic, howeve...

[July 16, 2017]The number eleven will always remind me of my second-eldest brother, Kevin. In his youth, Kevin was a phenomenal athlete. From the s...