I was born in the village of Thistletown, Ontario almost too many years ago to remember. I travelled by bus to attend a beer hall for first grade, the local legion forced into academic service while a new school was built, and I've never really stopped traveling thereafter. Through a 45-year career in teaching from primary to university, I worked in classrooms from BC, to China, Peru, Australia and Tanzania.

My writing began in earnest after a move to the west coast and graduate studies at the University of Victoria. Academic publications such as doctoral dissertation and articles in journals focused on the teaching of essay writing, but travel writing has been much lighter fare as such titles as “The Great Laundry Lotto” or "Single-Minded Malt" suggest. 

Although poetry remains a preferred genre, I have won some awards also for creative nonfiction and a travel journal co-authored with Beverly. Ten books of poetry and prose on, I'm still scratching out articles and poems.