Leaving Trent University in the 1990’s, a kazillion dollars in debt, I took a minimum wage job out in Lake Louise, Alberta.  There were no jobs to be found in Peterborough.  And I wasn’t quite ready to grow up.  Not just yet. So I decided to go someplace where I could hike, bike, ski, and […]

My very first seasonal collection of stories, features, and blog entries.  It’s just a few of the pieces featured here and in my Farm to Table food blog. In this edition: Internet privacy hoaxes, First Nations genocide, and early Rob Ford media backlash. Also: Stupid human tricks with bears and tourists, the joys of jerk […]

  Won’t someone please think of the children? That’s pretty much the theme of the latest “the web is watching” meme to hit Facebook and Twitter. In this one, parents are warned about taking cell phone photos of their children and then posting them online.  Apparently, it is a dangerous, reckless parenting practice.  A blog […]

This Peterborough Examiner article by my friend Sarah Deeth made me shake my head. “An Oshawa family drove up to Trent Lakes Wednesday to go sightseeing at the dump and take in some of the local bear-scavenging action when their van battery died at 11:30 p.m., Peterborough County OPP said. Adding to their growing concern […]

You can find my article on autism service dogs in the current online and print editions of Peterborough Kids, Lakeridge Kids, and Northumberland Kids magazines. You can also read it right here. This was on of the more interesting pieces I’ve written in quite awhile — it was inspiring to talk to parents and hear […]

It’s rare that the Canadian media use the “G” word when talking about the abuses waged on First Nations People of Canada. Genocide. I applaud the the Toronto Star for doing so in its column by Phil Fontaine, Dr. Michael Dan, and Bernie M. Farber. It’s time that more and more media outlets took up […]

The summer edition of Trent Magazine has made it’s way out to the world. You can read the e-edition by clicking on the cover image. In this edition, we go the Canadiana route — we’re telling the stories of a Mountie out on “the Rock,” a big-time CBC decision maker, an unmuzzled Canadian scientist, a […]

You can find my article on family camping cookouts in the current online and print editions of Peterborough Kids, Lakeridge Kids, and Northumberland Kids. You can also read it right here. Here’s a snippet from the piece: Many of the magical memories of family camping trips occur during mealtime. Cooking around – and sometimes over […]

After 5 hours of intense air conditioning, the temperature in my 107-year-old home/office has dropped a measly but merciful 2 degrees… …which has probably burned about 128 dinosaur-fossil’s of coal and dammed a further 3 rivers in Northern Ontario to fuel my hydro consumption. Somewhere someone has revoked my hippie card. And there is now […]