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It's getting a bit stale to start my next blog wit the phrase, it's been a while . But yes, it's been a while. This is not to say I haven't been busy, including my writing. But more on that in a moment. The past few months saw a flurry of activity. There was the last few rounds of golf as we (the we being my significant other and I) reveled in very summer like conditions in the Greater Toronto Area. That was combined with time spent in the garden, enjoying the fruits of my la

Hello. It’s been a while. I just re-read my last blog about getting back to work ‘soonish’. I wrote it over two months ago, and here I...

It's been some time since my last blog, which officially announced the launch of my novel, The Perfect Circus/Redux. And I want to begin...

Good day. It’s been a while since my last blog which announced the availability of purchasing my novel The Perfect Circus/Redux on...

Yes - as foretold in my last blog (and in a recent e-mail to many of you), it’s finally here! There was Independence Day (a movie I have...

This is (with any luck) my last blog before The Perfect Circus/Redux sees the light of day. All the pieces are in place. It’s now just a...

My thanks to those that read my last blog about losing a close friend. It’s been a process to get by it, not helped by the fact that he...

This is not the blog I was intending to start off the New Year. I was planning on wishing everyone the best, setting out a timeline for my book launch and generally approaching 2025 with optimism and enthusiasm. I’m sure I will get there at some point.   Today, I am going to write about friends and mentors. It will be self-explanatory in a moment.   I have been very lucky in my life in knowing some incredible individuals. As I enter my seventh decade, I have many friends, of

I left a bit of a cliffhanger on my last blog, and I owe it to Laura and Bridget, and those that read the blog, to bring it to a...

While at university (I’ve overused the phrase, ‘a lifetime ago’, so instead just think of the opening line of the classic ‘American Pie’)...

Back in Canada. Happy to be so. The trip to Portugal was wonderful, created more magical moments and lifelong memories. But like Dorothy...

Yesterday, we woke up in Averio, Portugal to a sky blackened by a number of forest fires in the interior (please see the photo). It was...

I am writing this while on a balcony in Lisbon, Portugal. As you can see, the view is, well, pretty good. Today is sunny and quite windy....

Hello, welcome and thank you for visiting my website and reading this blog. It’s exciting for me to get to this point; and frankly, just...