I can’t remember who put me on to this, or if I discovered it myself, or if I heard about it on what was then CBCRadio3’s college radio-esque late night programming on Radio1 – whatever it was, I am truly thankful. I’m talkin’ about CBCRadio3 Magazine, quite possibly one of the most beautiful multimedia amalgamations of Canadian […]
More ›I’ve been bothered for a long while – at least six years – about “what to do.” I put that in quotes to emphasize the very broad and general nature of the problem. Some people call it their ‘life’s work’, or their ‘calling’. I like to avoid both of those, because I don’t like to […]
More ›Not just a great song/album by Marvin Gaye (brother, brother, brother…), but a partial explanation of why it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been busy. (No, really. Sometimes I say that, but this time I actually mean it.) You see, even though the bay is still frozen, my life has been once […]
More ›I don’t like to say that I ‘hate’ things. It’s too harsh, and usually not true. I personally think it’s impossible for someone to truly believe that something can have utterly no redeeming quality or benefit at all, no matter how narrow the circumstance – or perhaps furthermore that something is so universally vile that the world would only […]
More ›Last week I finished up an eight-week weather course through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron. It laid down the basics of ‘why weather happens’ and then delved into the specifics of pressure systems, the reading and interpretation of surface analysis charts, and – most importantly to sailors – how to interpret and then forecast weather […]
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