If you aren’t already, you should be following my Farm to Table local, seasonal cooking blog at http://www.mykawartha.com/community/blogs/975646 And my semi-regular column in Peterborough This Week.

The print copy should be hitting the stands soon, but here is your Small Print preview: Butterfly Garden: Growing (and Sharing) an Eco-System It’s a warm and sunny day in late July. A Monarch butterfly spreads its wings and takes in the heat of the sun from its perch atop a slightly spiky purple coneflower. […]

The Lunchtime Concert Series, Episode 2. Carrion Street. Partly inspired by Dylan’s Desolation Row, it is more a series of character sketches put to music. The stock figures (The Humbled Actress, The Unknown Soldier, The Broken Rock Star, and the Politician) all end up populating Carrion Street — a kind of Skid Row of the […]

The joy of being a writer is that you get to work from home. Which means you can do things at lunchtime that other people don’t get to, like popping into your music room for a quick tune on the guitar. I was chatting about this online one day, and someone asked me to send […]

DJ Spooky, The Secret Song “DJ Spooky connects the dots between jazz, classical music, and the struggle to create new, dynamic relationships between old school hip hop and and 21st century’s rapidly changing info-culture landscape.” http://www.djspooky.com/art/the_secret_song.php 1. Intro- The War Of Ideas 2. 5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO- feat. The Coup 3. Multiphonic- […]

A preview of my editorial for the upcoming edition of Trent Magazine. We’ll be exploring the world of Trent University “foodie” alumnus and paying tribute to Tony Storey, who will be retiring from his long-served post of Director of Alumni affairs. Trent’s Splendid Feast I’ll be honest with you here. My main memories of food […]