Stress busting tricks
Calgary Herald, March 4, 2017: When my grandmother turned 80, we had a surprise party for her. In retrospect it was not, perhaps, the best idea, given her shock at […]
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Getting to know the other locals in Key Largo
Toronto Star, April 19, 2017: KEY LARGO, FLA.-Capt. Dan Harvey chuckles as he hauls out his phone to see how late we’re running. We’re in a sturdy white zodiac exploring […]
Did video kill more than the radio star?
Calgary Herald, Feb 4, 2017: I sang along to Tom Petty’s Refugee on my phone the other day. I hauled up the video on You Tube and just belted it […]
Long weekend in Halifax
Toronto Star, March 29, 2017: HALIFAX, N.S.-Halifax is built on a little hill that rolls up from the second largest natural harbour in the world to the Halifax Citadel, the […]
Gone crabbin’
Toronto Star, March 29, 2017 PORT JOLI, N.S.-Nova Scotia’s warm south shore is famed for beaches, surfing and the Bluenose II, but there’s a new game in town — rowing across […]
Walking with dinosaurs
Toronto Star, Feb 3, 2017, WEMBLEY, ALTA. You spin through hundreds of millions of years of the earth’s history in about 30 seconds. As you turn a dial, you watch […]
Go wild in Montebello
Toronto Star Jan 13, 2017, MONTEBELLO, QUE. It’s a remarkable feeling watching a pack of wolves just chillin’ in their hood. A couple are roughhousing — wolf wrestling — a […]
Stories in the walls
Toronto Star, Dec 9, 2016: GATINEAU, QUE. The British Hotel had been doing a booming business on the main drag here when real-estate developer and investment adviser Mike Clemann bought […]
Where the buffalo roam(ed)
Toronto Star, Oct 29, 2016: FORT MACLEOD, ALTA.—The elder scoops the smoke from the little pile of burning sweetgrass and moves it over either side of her body, careful to […]
Going with the flow in Hawaii
Toronto Star, Oct 29, 2016: HAWAII ISLAND, HAWAII-We’re walking down a gravel road toward the spot where lava is pouring into the ocean like cake batter into a pan. It’s […]
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