An uptight Torontonian escapes to Newfoundland
You can't live in Newfoundland without thinking about overfishing. In this TED video the truth about it is driven home - it's bad news. Coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the state of the ocean today: overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and ocean warming have fundamentally changed marine ecosystems and led to "the rise of slime," and it'll only get worse. For example: a … [Read more...]
Theatres in St. John's, Newfoundland Resource Center for the Arts Theatre Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland PO Box 23193, Churchill Square St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J9 artisticfraud@nf.sympatico.ca 709-693-0224 Shakespeare By The Sea Festival (Saint John's) Wonderbolt Productions (Saint John's) Wonderbolt is an innovative, critically acclaimed, and unabashedly entertaining … [Read more...]
I seem to be afraid of heights. Perhaps I haven't phrased that correctly. I am afraid of death seems more like it. Afraid of the sure death that is to come if you trip and slip off a cliff and crack your head open on the razor sharp rocks below. Yes. The perils of hiking have me a-feared. It's the second time I have walked out past the Battery to the start of one of the North Head hiking … [Read more...]
Living in Toronto, one doesn't come across hurricanes. You may get thunderstorms galore, and the occasional tornado (sometimes deadly, my heart goes out to Durham, Ontario) but the ocean is way too far away for hurricanes. But here in my new home, I am living by the sea. And the sea brings different weather patterns than the cities in the centre of the universe - er- country. The news is all … [Read more...]
One of the reasons I moved to Newfoundland is because I have a strong romantic notion based on an idealized version of Paris in the twenties - one where artists run amok from salon to salon, breaking boundaries, blowing minds and spreading ideas of freedom with wild and productive abandon. I even moved to Prague during the summer of '95 looking for it, as the rumour was at the time that it was the … [Read more...]
Some people are mountain people. Not I. I am a lake person. I love lakes. I love them especially if I can swim in them. Oceans are great too. The warm kind without jellyfish (meduses) especially. I am all about water, and the beautiful vistas they afford. This summer I had to go back home to my favourite spot in the world - the cottage on Georgian Bay. I just had to. Dad is legally blind now … [Read more...]
I got a lovely letter from some fellow Ontarians who are hearing the call of the puffins - you know the one that says "you must move out east" - and so decided to break from my round-the-clock job of creating Newfoundland's latest great export, book trailers, to write back and post a blog post all at the same time. Dear Patti, this is for you. Yes, I must say when I had "the calling" to … [Read more...]
It cheers me right up. I'm sick in bed for the third day, it's raining the third day in a row. But I just heard the Newfoundland accent and it cheered me right up. What's up with that? … [Read more...]
You know how you have those romantic ideals about certain scenarios or adventures. Like a mini fantasy that has become stuck in your brain after seeing it on a TV ad, cheesy show, or reading about it in a book. Well, I have plenty of them. I've got the one about horse-back riding on a deserted Caribbean beach at sunset. Hunky soul mate optional. The one where I am enjoying a glass of wine … [Read more...]
[On traveling, review of A Year in Provence and Under The Tuscan Sun ] While I was getting ready for my big move to Newfoundland, I let myself do some non-censored wild mind dreaming, and a thought came up that I entertained for a bit. My thought was - why don't I write about my travels? You know, a travelogue - or travelblog I guess, of my move and adventures out east, then turn them into a … [Read more...]
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