39? Today? The horror! Then I realized, with the conversion from Canadian to US, well, I'm only 25! Happy birthday to me.

Ottawa, May 25, '63
First and last nudie shot
on the Internet.

Ottawa, March '66
Still blonde, but it won't last.

"You know what Freud said about girls who like horses..." Derek

Sharon's B'day, Ottawa, October '70
First and last frilly pink dress.

174" of snow! Ottawa, March 3, '71
That's me in the poopy brown and piss yellow snowsuit.

Whipsnade Zoo, August '73
The photograph really looks like this.
Mummy cropped Claire.

Guelph, December '83
The year after our mother lost her battle with cancer. Claire and I shot a roll of film to include in our holiday cards. My father suffered his first major heart attack a few days after this photograph was taken and would pass away the following Easter.

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." - Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Guelph, March '85
The 80s weren't kind. Just look at that hair!

Claire and Leslie were studying in London so Cindy and I decked ourselves out and shot a roll of film to try and convince them, and ourselves, that we weren't missing them too much.

Houston, September '91
Check out those
caterpillar eyebrows.
I hadn't discovered
tweezers yet.

New York, April '96
Flea market on Broadway in Soho.
I should have bought that hat.

Austin, March '01
Our blue skies "suite" at the penis motel. We were
entertained by our next door neighbour who first,
lost his rental car and then second, brought home
a hooker and engaged in loud sex to celebrate.


"We are all like little sperm. And in the morning I am not the strongest swimmer. But it seems, in order to get from one bus to one pregnancy packed train, one must be a strong swimmer--ready to knock down and/or kill any other sperm who gets in their way. I hate my commute." Michele Howley

Melanie Goux curates the Mirror Project with Europa.

Rabbit rabbit!



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