With Alex, ca. 1987 in Ottawa.

Cathy has always drawn cartoons of our family. Here are Alex’s first steps.

Alex quickly supplanted me as Cathy’s muse.

Alex’s and Erica’s imaginary worlds—Cathy knew both our kids inside out.

With CBC Midday co-host Tina Srebotnjak and producer Eva Czigler on a ferry ride to Salt Spring Island, BC, in 1993.

Interviewing William Shatner on Midday in 1994.

Sitting in for Peter Jennings at ABC’s World News Tonight.

Good Morning America’s first three male hosts. David Hartman brought the baton; Charlie Gibson then passed it on to me.

With co-anchor Lisa McRee the weekend before our debut on Good Morning America in May 1998. We didn’t feel as upbeat as we looked on the billboard—the show was in serious trouble before we even started.

Robin Williams cracking us up on Good Morning America.

With Alex at the 1998 shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral.

Erica watching the post-show haircut on my final day as co-host of Good Morning America.

With Alex and Erica in 2001, after we moved to Vancouver, hoping for a more normal family life.

Alex and his inspiring Lego creations.

Family portrait the day after Alex came out to us in 2004. We thought it was important to proceed with the long-scheduled shoot.

Alex marching in his first Pride parade in Vancouver in 2005

We came to the parade to cheer Alex on.

It wasn’t the run-of-the-mill procession we’d been expecting.

Happy campers: on every vacation, we take a group shot trying to look as miserable as possible. Here we are in Lake Louise in 2004.

Cathy buying condoms with Alex.

Cathy rented Queer as Folk to watch with Alex, not knowing just how raw and explicit the HBO series was.

Alex with his boyfriend on the raft at our cottage, 2005.

Tearing across the lake so my father wouldn’t hear through the cottage grapevine that Alex’s PDA had involved a boy, not a girl.

In a light armored vehicle, reporting from Afghanistan in 2005.

Five years after launch, Global National was Canada’s most-watched newscast.