In November 2016, Jakki and I spent ten days in California driving from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Palm Springs, then from Los Angeles to San Francisco. After we watched Jon Favreau’s movie Chef, we adapted the idea of shooting one …
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Getting laid off (voluntarily) made the decision for me to take a year off to travel significantly easier. For the past five years, I’d been climbing the journalism ladder and building a modest career. I’d hoped that at some point …
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The best metaphor for Toronto’s food scene is the now defunct Honest Ed’s. It’s a seemingly endless labyrinth filled with imitations, and the indie cred outweighs the quality. As we wandered the once-familiar streets of downtown Toronto this weekend, I …
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I moved into my first apartment six months after starting out as a reporter in Lloydminster. For the next four months I slept on an air mattress until I could afford a real bed. Re-inflating that air mattress three to …
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I moved to Alberta from Ontario in 2013 with whatever would fit into my Saturn. Most of my non-essential belongings stayed behind in my parents basement. Being at the beginning of my journalism career I didn’t own all that much. …
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We were moving from Lloydminster to Edmonton, Alberta for work. I was already living in Edmonton, sleeping on an air mattress in our new apartment, and Jakki was finishing up her last days at work in Lloydminster. The plan was …
Read more →Moving across the country is a great test of the necessity of your possessions. Jakki and I are packing up our two bedroom apartment and the findings are disheartening. In four years, we’ve amassed vast amounts of garbage. We’ve made …
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My girlfriend convinced me to participate in her Bachelor Fantasy League, and armed with only the experience of once starting and forgetting about starting a fantasy hockey league (and knowing next to nothing about hockey), I decided I was going …
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Last week, protesters outside of a wild-game dinner carried signs that suggested that wild game was a “fetish”. Yesterday, a friend asked me if hunting was more of a hobby or a fetish. Fortunately, it’s no more of a hobby …
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While the past four years have been the best, if only, years of my career, I accepted a voluntary buyout package from Postmedia for a number of reasons. None of which could have been avoided by Postmedia. I moved to …
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