I may as well stop travel writing, and just concentrate on family travel. Oh, wait. Can you do family travel when sometimes there is no one, or maybe only one family member with you? Let’s not call it family travel,…
Dorothy Knowles brings the prairies – and a couple of daughters – to Montreal
It’s a personal record, 90 minutes to organize a trip and get out the door. I’d only been back from Ireland for a couple of days, and was really glad to get some time to relax in Toronto. Except, except…
Saskatchewan – a mind-boggling experience even John Cage could appreciate
Strange things happen in bogs, especially in northern Europe where all kinds of rituals and magical rites went on during the Iron Age. I just wrote about visiting a bog, or muskeg, just near Waskesiu Lake in northern Saskatchewan. Read…
You’re never too old to embarrass your mother
Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? Who doesn’t remember being mortified by their parents in high school? It’s the nature of growing up. (Or am I abnormal? Wait – don’t answer that.) But over the years things…
Dorothy Knowles (my mom) at the McMichael Collection
I’m not one to brag (okay, I kind of am) but I feel I simply must bring the world’s attention to the fact that my mother, Dorothy Knowles, is having an art show Dorothy Knowles Land Marks at the McMichael Collection…