The time has come, the old Vietnam era hippie protester said, to speak of many things…

And what this aging radical wants to speak about today is pulling the plug on cable and network TV news.

ALL OF IT. [click to continue…]

The Storyteller Cafe senior editor, and at his age he couldn’t be much else, Kenneth Larsen, while butchering last Tuesday’s column, happened to mention how much he was enjoying my partner in crime Jon’s Facebook series of posts #MakeaMovieMoreCanadian.

The object of the post being to share your best Canadian take on famous movie titles, which of course soon devolved into a competition among both US and Canadian movie buffs. [click to continue…]

“What do you guys call Canadian Bacon?” I asked my Canadian friend and guide Jon Breithaupt.

“Ham,” he said with a heavy air of exasperation one has when answering the same dumb question for the thousandth time. [click to continue…]

It has been a long summer here in Ontario, full of mixed emotions and feelings and, while I did not intend to take the summer away from sharing my thoughts and observations about life in the land of moose and maple syrup, events, as they have a way of doing, kinda got the better of me. [click to continue…]

Safely ensconced for the summer in Cambridge, Ontario, I began to prepare for a two week return visit to Palm Springs.

Positive travel karma was with me that day. I sailed through Customs and security as swiftly as if I were carrying a diplomatic passport. I even scored an aisle seat in the only empty row of seats on an otherwise full flight from Toronto to LA. [click to continue…]

For the past two years my home of record has been Palm Springs, California. However as I write this, it is a glorious, warm, sunny Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound, Ontario. I came here to write about what spending winter in Canada would be like for a guy from a desert resort town that plays host to thousands of Canadian snowbirds every winter.

The only problem was I made it here, winter didn’t. [click to continue…]

Dave Gratton is a strong man. A very strong man. A competitive powerlifter and professional fitness trainer, Dave works out and trains, much more intently than I do, at the same gym I’ve been using during my stay here in Owen Sound, Ontario. [click to continue…]

On February 7, I was wandering around Hamilton, Ontario in jeans and a t-shirt. In early March I had to borrow a windbreaker from a friend because everything I’d brought to wear during my winter stay in Canada was too stiflingly warm to wear. [click to continue…]

As anyone who’s ever gotten an email from me will tell you, my public school grammar skills are, at best, appalling and, at worst, well, just plan nonexistent. So, it should come as no surprise to anyone that before posting anything on this blog I run it past my good friend, professional tech writer, and editor, Kenneth Larsen. [click to continue…]