Category: Personal

Those of you who drive up 2nd Avenue in Whitehorse may have been wondering what’s going on behind Erik’s Audiotronic. Well, this is going to be the home of a new company in town – one in a field that may surprise many of you. Although tourism in general...

No, I didn’t win the lottery, but what I have received is even better than cash. I’m now seizure free with no drugs, despite the fact that the neurologist said it was not going to happen. He was going to take me off the dilantin in 6 months and...

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...

I’m somewhat limited in both my physical and mental abilities until my body gets used to the dilantin I’m now on to deal with my seizures, so I’m undertaking some “occupational therapy” by doing something I love – digging into Yukon-Alaska history. A few years ago I started a...

Back in the Fall of 2003 I met a strikingly handsome but “thrown-away” husky named Monty at the Whitehorse shelter, and we adopted each other. He had a very, very difficult time as a youngster (you can read his story at Everything Husky), but our relationship has deepened beyond...

I began getting emails and phone calls a couple of days ago asking if I was okay, as I’d dropped off the face of cyberspace, with no blog entries and emails unanswered. The comments on yesterday’s explanation of what’s going on (and the many phone call) are deeply appreciated...

This year, for the first time in several years, I’ll be home for the start of the Yukon Quest on February 14th so Cathy and I can both go to it (oh yeah, I’ll be home for Valentine’s Day too 🙂 ). In this year’s Quest, my friend Michelle...

Sorry, the reds, yellows and oranges you were hoping for dropped onto the ground many weeks ago. The photo below was shot on the way home from Whitehorse at noon today. The colours of Fall are now black and white. I fired up my SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) therapy...