In addition to working various full-time jobs since leaving school, I’ve been producing photographic images for over 40 years. My first assignment was for the high school yearbook.
My on-line history goes back to CompuServe, Freenets and 2400 baud modems. In fact, Dad introduced me to ‘puters by letting me write code (in ‘basic‘) for the IBM-5150. Now I operate a number of web-sites and on-line shops. The Digital Gryphon is the business entity behind my various creative endeavours.
In this internet age, I’m able to offer my services to folks beyond my own neighbourhood (Toronto, Ontario). The main limitations are language and payment. My few years of high school French study didn’t take, so I can only function in english. I did study Dutch via shortwave radio one summer, back in the 1970s- telling that story here is pretty much the entirety of what remains of those lessons.
Biography
When asked for a short biography, I offer “a Queer NeuroDelightful Can-American in Ontario, recently returned from decades in Ohio. Card reader, designer, photographer, poet, Sister Flirt TOPI, ULC ordained. Partially retired from the grind- but fully engaged in recovering from decades of trauma.”
I was born in Toronto over 60 years ago- the third of four children. I’m at least the seventh generation of a cross-border family. Mom was born in the USA (her Mother was from Canada and her father from the US) but moved to Canada to marry her first husband. Dad was born in Canada; his father was from Ireland while his Mom was born in Canada but raised by a relative in upstate New York.
Coming Out, Again
(Most links here are to my blog)
@ I Came Out as gay in 1978;
@ This century I prefer the term Queer;
@ I’ve also used this blog to Come Out as both spiritual and a kinkster, and as a fully professed Sister in the Toronto Order of Perpetual Indulgence;
@ I clarified my spiritual practices and Came Out as a Tarot/Oracle Card Reader in 2019;
@ In November 2023 I Came Out as NeuroDiverse and Clinically Depressed.
Podcasts, Social Media Appearances
Whether you’re curious what I look like, how I sound, or what I get excited about, here are some places you can hear (and sometimes see) me;
# My youTube channel No Gentle Future presents aspects of my life from the mystical arts to mental health;
# I talked with K of Lost Spaces podcast about my miss-spent youth- see this post for some more about that
# I talked with Dennis of the Dennis Anyone podcast on Part 1 of their 2025 Holiday Gift Guide about the Official R&P Lyrical Oracle and just generally being an independent queer artist.
Brian Online:
My LinkedIn Profile;
My Instagram Gallery;
My Bluesky Profile;
My Facebook Profile;
My youTube Channel;
Author Page at Amazon.