I'm an awards junkie. My OCD side loves the fussy way you have to put together entries — often cutting and pasting a story into a new document and stripping out your name and publication. It's always a thrill to…
Come travel Canada and the world with me in search of quirk. Where can you hunt Sasquatch and UFOs? Go to the edge of the ice floe to watch for narwhal? Take a walking polar bear safari? Gather for a…
Two things I learned last summer in Newfoundland: Baby puffins are called pufflings, and pufflings are relatively cute but don't yet have that distinctive orange striped beak that makes us fall so hard for them. I spent a day with the…
With my 50th birthday looming last December, I was a little spun out and craving drama — so I bought a house on Fogo Island. Fogo is an island off an island (Newfoundland and Labrador) that's about two days from Toronto.…
Pinch me and then pour me a drink — I just won three writing awards from the North American Travel Journalists Association. A package of my Canada 150 stories in the Toronto Star won Gold in the Travel Series category for print…
Mummers. I first heard that strange and alluring word in 2017 and it alone made me go to St. John’s, Newfoundland to find out more. Mummering is an ancient custom of disguise and house visits at Christmas, but it's a tradition that's…