Brian started life as the child of fruit farmers in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. At the age of six the family relocated to Orillia, Ontario. Upon graduation from law school Brian and his wife Susan settled in Ottawa, where they raised a family (Rachel Gold and Cara Gold) and lived fulfilling personal and professional lives. In semi-retirement he started writing poetry at the family lake house near Perth, Ontario. Early in the pandemic, he enrolled in a poetry workshop at Carleton University which led to Brian and two other poets sharing their poetry in regular online meetings. Many of the poems in this collection were first presented in those sessions.