That’s right, folks. It’s an Edmonton art gallery trip, a wild and crazy cultural vacation to that big prairie city in the province of Alberta in good old Canada – though now I pause to think about it, Canada’s not that old. It was founded in 1867, which would make it, um (pause for calculation), 147 years […]
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. After visiting a bog, or muskeg, just near Waskesiu Lake in northern Saskatchewan, in Prince Albert Provincial Park, and walking the Boundary Bog Trail, I’ve become a certified bog fan. But I […]
New niche travel style, Family Painting Travel
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, then, but the new exciting genre … Family Painting Travel. In the last 6 […]
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 … my mom, Dorothy Knowles, and my sister, Catherine, were in Montreal for my mom’s […]
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 have changed – and now it’s my poor mother who can expect to be embarrassed […]
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 in Kleinburg, Ontario this weekend. She’s flown in for the opening on Sunday along with […]
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