Burn Baby, Burn
On Monday January 3rd, Neil Reynolds urged readers of his Globe and Mail column to “Go forth, multiply and fill the provinces”. He was refuting the claim by biological anthropologist...
The World’s Magic
A moment that I’d anticipated and imagined and fantasized about for ten years finally strolled into my life on Saturday evening. I’d arrived in Chicago to participate in Andrew Harvey’s...
Protesting Violence
I read an article by Marcus Gee in the Globe and Mail today (Why some G20 protesters won’t condemn violence). The piece looked at a number of groups protesting the...
The G20
“Meetings of nations are always better than not having meetings of nations. I think, however, they should have their meetings on that island of floating plastic in the Pacific. They...
The dust has settled
The book is finished. I’m bewildered, amazed, spent, ecstatic and grateful beyond speaking. After a decade working at it – tracing out miles of pencil lead over countless sheets of...
Winemaking
Okay, so I’ve been a bit remiss on the old blog-making front. It hasn’t yet been a year since I last checked in – but it would be if I...
The Subtle Workout
To set the stage: for the past six years I’ve been obsessed (more like ‘possessed’, according to my long-suffering family) with the writing of a book, and am only just...
First blog of my life
So I read last week in a magazine that the top-selling book in Canada in 2007 was The Secret. Excuse me? Is there really any hope for humanity? To come...
Cycling through Japan
Here is a picture from 1973 of me and the motorbike of the guy who raced me while I was on my bicycle. Luckily for me he had to abide...