Category: Books & Libraries

I have a very understanding wife. Despite the fact that Saturday was our anniversary, I needed to go to Atlin for an article that’s due in a few days. We had gone out for a very nice dinner at The Wheelhouse Friday night, though, and Cathy needed some bonding...

For the past year or so, Canadian Geographic magazine has been asking people to help them choose the cover of the next issue. The image below shows the current option. I chose the middle one – it’s dynamic and I like the clean, contrasting background that emphasizes the action....

I’m fascinated by the ways that technology is constantly providing new doors to open. Sometimes the doors lead to places that didn’t exist before, sometimes they just take you to the same place via a different route. Over the past few days it’s been Kindle that’s provided a new...

Last year I worked for a few days with a film crew making a travelogue following Scottish comedian Billy Connolly on a 10,000-mile journey across the Canadian Arctic and then down through the Yukon and British Columbia. In July I took a couple of members of the crew on...

Stated more accurately, I don’t read properly anymore. Like many people with busy lives, I read snippets of information rather than complete articles – on the Web mostly. I seldom buy newspapers anymore, and often they sit on the table for days or even weeks before I do more...

My first book, Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams, has been out of print for about 3 years now. Occasionally a copy appears in the collector market, but even that’s dried up in the past years or so. I got an email this afternoon that a dealer in Florida has...

To get the garbage out of New York City each day takes 450 tractor-trailer rigs which use a total of about 33,700 gallons of diesel fuel on their round trip to Pennsylvania. For every barrel of waste we put on the curb, there are 71 barrels of waste generated...