My favorite pagesEdit

• http://americanotstandingstill.com
• http://members.shaw.ca/save-wild-horses/
• http://nothingyoucansee.wordpress.com

EDUCATION: Ba, political science, 1994, Simon Fraser U, Burnaby, B.C.

          Master of journalism, 1995, Langara Polytechnique U, Vancouver, B.C.

LANGUAGES: English, French (moderately fluent. I can talk my way around Quebec!);

          Spanish (fluent)

Retired news reporter. I covered the city hall and province beats for a daily broadsheet newspaper in the B.C. Interior. I LOVE the practice of journalism - the speed, the urgency to meet deadline, the adrenaline rush when you finally track down that one source who completes your story. It's like a drug! News journalism is the way my literary hero, Ernest Hemingway, honed his too-good-to-be-true writing skills. I dream of one day writing just one PERFECT sentence, as good as Hem's stuff.

MY INTERESTS:

MUSIC:
Beatles, Stones, Elton John, James Taylor, Marilyn Manson,
Joni Mitchell, Tina Turner, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Who.


MOVIES:
Out of Africa, Trip To Bountiful, Woodstock, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Buffalo Bill & The Indians, Little Big Man, 
2001 - A Space Odyssey, ..all of Clint Eastwood's newer westerns
.

BOOKS:
All fiction by Ernest Hemingway, all by Margaret Atwood.

ONE BOOK TO TAKE TO A DESERTED ISLAND
: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Vol. 1 (includes best story ever written, "The Hills of Kilimanjaro"

QUOTES:
“All You Need Is Love” 
“Peace, Love & Drugs, Man.”
“F ---k the PIGS”
'Power To The People“
 “Healter Skelter” 
“Tune in, Turn on, and Drop Out”


FOODS:
Sweet potato french fries


PLACES:
Mexico


PLACES I WANT TO VISIT:
England, Africa, (esp Kenya, Ethiopia)


Survivor of ruptured brain aneurysm. [ see: http://nothingyoucansee.wordpress.com ].

My most beloved place on Earth is Mexico. I have wintered there annually for many years. I speak fluent Spanish, the language learned so long ago formally in high school, and later by immersion when touring Mexico as a hitch-hiking hippie. Now that I am in full retirement, I intend to acquire a "snowbird" home on the Mexican Riviera and plant myself there on a more fulltime basis.

There is no more ancient, storied and exotic country in the Western Hemisphere than my beloved Mexico. There is no other multi-ethnic native population so directly linked by blood to peoples of great mysteries and and amazing powers, the Maya and the Aztec.

And for all of that, I worship the sun, sand and blue blue seas of the Mexican east coast. I tan well. I snorkel. I specialize in DOING NOTHING!