A little over 40 years ago, I co-hosted  If Your Parents Split . It's a half-hour show about children impacted by the divorce of their...

As is my wont, I sometimes write "as is my wont." But also as is my wont, I also sometimes, and not just because I'm feeling ...

We've finally arrived at Back to the Future Day, October 21, 2015. While Marty and Doc Brown were travelling through time, I ...

When I was small, I couldn't decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. Astronaut was my number one pick, followed closely by actor. Wr...

I've had a significant increase in freelance work over the past couple of weeks, so today I spent a couple of hours dealing with my acc...

Back when I landed the co-hosting slot of the CBC pilot "If Your Parents Split," one of the actors gave me a very nice card a...

Today the postman delivered my Tweets from 2112 prize package - the officially listed grand prize of a new iPod Touch, but also a copy of...

Well, that was unexpected. I posted earlier this week about the the Canada Writes Tweets from 2112 contest, elated to make the long list ( ...

Zounds! One of my tweets listed yesterday made it onto the All-Stars list under the Space Exploration category . I guess that puts me in th...

Today CBC ran a one-day contest on Twitter, asking folks to send tweets backward in time from the year 2112. Robert J. Sawyer will judge the...

Neil just reminded me that the deadline for the annual Canada Writes short story project is approaching once again. I'm relatively happ...

In March 1979, the Woods family packed up a U-Haul and left our home in Leaf Rapids, Manitoba to embark on the long journey to Edmonton, Alb...

CBC has announced the longlist of 35 finalists for the 2012 Canada Writes short story contest. As I expected, my story, "Edge of Nowher...

The first time a visual artist interpreted my written work occurred way back in high school, when Russell Wiesener illustrated the "Sev...

I've finished and submitted my Canada Writes contest entry. My short story is just a couple words short of the maximum length, down fro...

My friend Neil Mackie has challenged me to participate in the Canada Writes short story contest. I have agreed to do so, not because I have...

Many years ago, when I was working on If Your Parents Split , one of the actors presented me with a button that read, "I'm Nearly F...

Looks like I have some catching up to do. I went out to Pete's birthday party on Saturday night - well, he calls it a "re-birthday,...