Sharon Berg               A life in words ...

My Photo Album

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      Great Grandma & Grandpa Anderson:                      The Anderson Family, Circa 1882, Sweden,

      This is their wedding picture, circa 1875.                just before leaving for Ellis Island, USA.

      It was taken in Sweden.                                             They settled in the Dakotas, close to the

                                                                                          Sacred Black hills of the Sioux.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am with my sister Cathi and my brother Danny.               My parents on Lake Superior on a

The big fellow in my lap is Tomcat, a wild fellow .                  family boating trip. I took the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Brown: the artist and the                           Here is one of a series of “woman in Hat’

father of my two oldest children.                            portraits that William executed in 1974.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is apicture that speaks volumes.                              The Minister who married us saw a

I wrote in my album above this picture,                          couple in trouble when the bride kept

“Bride and  groom? Yes. Change of name? No.”                picking up her daughter... Both he and

                                                                                           my husband thought a man came

                                                                                        first for a good wife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Here is Ila, age 6, in her Grade One year :            My neice, Apryl (left), with Ila in schoolyard.

      Here is a girl who always wore a smile.                These girls were close as sisters growing up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharon by Mt. Rundle ,1982. I participated in the              Sharon in a meadow along the Bow Rr. in

Advanced Writers Workshop at the Banff school of             Banff, Alberta. This was a life expanding

Fine Arts with seven other Canadian writers.                     experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brynna was welcomed into the family by her big                 Brynna on a trip to Toronto Island with

big sister ,Ila, who had begged for a sibling.                        her father, John McCullum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my best male friend, Marty Singleton,                   Marty was an accomplished photographer

 with his girlfriend, Courtney, in 1983.                             in addition to being a respected poet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In Grade 6 for Ila and Kindergarten for Brynna                   This is an Open House event. The school

 My children were students at Wandering Spirit                   has since been renamed First Nations

 Survival School and I worked as a volunteer.                       School and remain on Toronto Board of

                                                                                              Education’s list of alternative schools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  John is an Environmentalist and he made                          Robert Billings was very important in my

  sure the girls knew how to start a fire                              growing understanding of myself as a

   in any weather. No one eats at his camp                         writer.

   fire unless they help to set up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  This photo was taken at A-Space Gallery                    Here is my favourite photograph, not just

  In Ottawa in 1985. This is the face for the                  because everyone looks good but because

  voice on the recordings of my work.                            we are all three together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is my student photo at UBC, taken as                    Here are Ila (left) and Kirsten (blue streaks)

  I arrived in Vancouver in 1998. The rain                       in the yard of Ila’s house. It is the summer

  made my hair curl always.                                              of 1999 in Vancouver, B.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Shawn and I met while we both lived in St.                          Shawn’s brother Daryal came to visit

 Catharines. This photo was taken on a trip                           and we took him to see the World

 to Port Dalhousie.                                                                Wonder known as Niagara Falls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  In 2001, I was reluctant to have my photo                    This is Pooh Bear, our cat, in his preferred

  taken. It was the year Dad went into                            resting place, especially when Kirsten was

   full time Nursing care.                                                 around. (The obligatory pet photo.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The girls both came to visit us for Christmas                  This is our Sharpei, Winnie. The breed is

   in 2003, while we were living in Brampton.                    also known as the Wrinkle Dog, though it

                                                                                       is what is referred to as a ‘face breed’.

                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Finally,  if you persevered through the                           This is Shawn sporting a handsome new

 Album, this is me in 2006.                                                ‘do’ in 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

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