Back in 1986 you could go into Malcolm Parry’s Vancouver Magazine office (his door was always open). Sometime in April I went in and said, “Mac I have this idea for the forthcoming Mother’s Day in which I would photograph fathers and mothers and their children and because I have chosen writers they have either written about their children or also their children have written about them.” Mac (as we knew him) said, “Do it.” And it became a cover called Sequels.

I was very upset today May 15, Father’s Day because I could not find the blog I may have written about it. I had in fact not written one. But I found the piece in one of my old “tear sheet portfolios”

And here it is. I am extremely proud of it.

There is a sad note that I must add. I went to a church celebration of life with writer Ben Metcalf. He told me, "Alex, it is really sad for a father to have to go to his son's funeral." His son had died of a drug overdose suicide.