About Me

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Thanks for wandering into my little digital corner of the world. Here are the things I think make me a unique and interesting person:

• 14 years in Communications (currently with Hockey Alberta; previously at Northern Lights College).
• 18 years in Journalism, starting as the sports reporter at the Midland Free Press, with a stint at the Clarion in Kindersley, Saskatchewan before finishing as the Managing Editor of the Peace River Block Daily News in Dawson Creek, BC. (Interesting Note: none of these papers exist any longer.)
• History grad from Wilfrid Laurier University, where my Bachelor's Thesis was entitled "The Americanization of Canadian College Football: A Case Study of Dave "Tuffy" Knight, WLU 1965-70".
• 40 plus years as a softball umpire, with one national championship, where I met Walter Gretzky.
• Have resided in four provinces (Ontario, Saskatchewan, BC and Alberta) with the various auto insurance regulations that exist in each.
• Proud to say I grew up in Londesboro, Ontario (population 200), where we had some of the best darned road hockey players on the face of the earth.
• I believe the pun is the highest form of humour (not only does it need to be funny, it also has to have a double meaning!)
• There is a line from the Simpsons that is applicable to every situation in the world - no exceptions.
• I have a favourite assortment of comic strips that I have accumulated over the years, including strips from Calvin and Hobbes ("they go farther when you make them right"), Bloom County ("mind if I blow pastrami belches in your face"), and Shoe ("Chester A, Chet the Jet Arthur....").
• Despite everything outlined above, I am married. I met my lovely wife after writing a column lamenting that Chunky soup was biased against single people because they had fewer flavours available in the single-serve cans than in the big cans.