Please Don’t Try To Take My Picture. Here’s Why

What seems innocuous to you can be anything but

My brother-in-law‘s stealth picture of me — Christmas Eve, in a horse-drawn carriage, on a cold but beautiful night in Niagara-on-the-Lake / Picture taken by the author’s family

Last Saturday I asked my best friend of over 30 years if he wanted to join me for dinner. We hadn’t seen each other for a few weeks so we were overdue for a chin wag.

His response was brief: “I don’t feel social today.”