I went to the Fair the other night, and found myself looking at the experience through the eyes of a writer. It might have helped that I’d forgotten my camera – this was the the first time in as long as I can remember that I didn’t bring my trusty case with me to an event like this.  I’ve been using photography as a storytelling device since I was about 8, but only recently have I (re)discovered the joy of writing.  I know it won’t be long before I meld the two together, but the other night, I had only one way to capture what I saw – the pad of paper and pen that I had remembered to bring.

And so, acting the part of a “journalist,” I paid attention to my surroundings and wrote about what I saw. Want to read what I wrote?  Of course you do…

Lucky for you (and me), Linda Solomon, the publisher of The Vancouver Observer, has created a great platform for emerging writers (like yours truly) to have their work seen. So now you can read all about my Fair adventures here (or at least the first page – the Observer’s old pages aren’t archived forever, it seems).

By the way, Linda posted my first published “story” about the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in mid-July, and I was blown away to have that one picked up by the Tyee as part of their “Best of the V.O.” series the very next day.

So far, so good.