Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
I was a contributing writer in 2009 for the website The Travel Editor, based in the United Kingdom. Besides international tales, my posted articles, with photos, covered the arts and entertainment scene in Vancouver, BC and on the Sunshine Coast on Canada’s west coast.
Unfortunately, the company operating the website has since closed and it is no longer available.
It was a delight to be one of five BC authors who read short memoir excerpts Feb. 21, as a Canadian Authors, BC Chapter Zoom event. Topics ranged from poignant reminiscences of a mother and her sudden death to a Lancaster fighter pilot who survived two years of duty in the Second World War. One…
Buses in India filled with chickens and goats and bomb warnings. A brawl in a bus in Kathmandu. Twenty-metre-long “camels”—double-trailer tractor loads—carry public transit riders in Havana, Cuba in the late 1990s. These are some of the first-person and news accounts I wrote in Transit Around the World, published in Coast Mountain BusLink’s Transit Exchange newsletter in April…
For centuries, the medieval labyrinth in France’s Chartres Cathedral has attracted millions of visitors and Camino de Santiago pilgrims like me. I described my mixed feelings in walking this historic pathway in my travel feature “The wonders of the labyrinth.” This piece appeared in the Sept. 13, 2013 issue of The Coast Reporter on…
Hello Everyone, The Burnaby Writers’ Society is sponsoring me as a featured writer on Zoom, Sunday, Sept. 19, starting at noon. I’ll be reading short excerpts from three sources: my essay “A Slow Good-bye,” a visit to the Taj Mahal from my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket (Guernica Editions 2023), and my picture book…
Travel is one of my passions. From post-war Nicaragua in 1981 to a year of solo travel in southeast Asia, I’ve relished adventures and encounters on many continents. I’ve squared off with gawkers and hawkers at train stations in India and faced men with knives on a train in Italy. I’ve ridden camels and elephants, suffered a horse…
I taught a one-day workshop “Prose on the Road: The Art of Travel Writing” for the Sechelt, BC campus of Capilano University from 2008 to 2010. The course offered engaging hands-on exercises, query tips, and a great bibliography. For more information, see Teaching.