About Me

I keep thinking that someday I might stop saying I’m “from Vancouver.” After all, I haven’t lived there for about thirteen years, and if I’m honest with myself, I know my seven years in Montreal (1997–2004) helped define who this present-day Luke character is just as much. But seven years in Montreal also made me feel like I could never say I was from there, and three and a half years in Nottingham, England certainly didn’t make me English. So I’m still “from Vancouver.”

Since 2008, I’ve lived in the city most Canadians love to hate, Toronto. Fellow Canadians, Toronto is better than you think. In May 2008 I married my most excellent partner, Catriona and Suki the Portuguese Water Dog With a Japanese Name (Just to Keep You On Your Toes) joined us soon after and made our lives a bit more full and made our faces a bit more slobbered-on and beckoned the introduction of a dog blog. Yes, my dog has a blog. No, I’m not embarrassed. Not one little bit. Stop smirking.

For the past few years I’ve been the graphic designer/CSS monkey/JavaScript dude/documentation writer/email answerer for Dabble DB, an online database application. I like that it always takes me a few minutes to explain to people what I do, but you’ll have to just go to the website and find out for yourself. Sorry.

Among other things, I have been called lucky, smart, impatient, snobby, snot factory, jack of all trades, a good teacher, good at photography, coffee nazi (black, no sugar please), lover, husband, cat person, dog person, people person and, of course, attaboy.