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You will find a full selection of my multimedia articles on The Philosophical Traveller.

Writing as resonance

In Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002) — her non-fiction book about writing — Margaret Atwood makes two statements that resonate with me:

“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past. And all must commit acts of larceny; or else reclamation, depending how you look at it. The dead may guard the treasure, but it's useless treasure unless it can be brought back into the land of the living and allowed to enter time once more – which means to enter the realm of the audience, the realm of the readers, the realm of change.”

“As the best authorities have it, easy to go there, but hard to come back; and then you must write it all down on a stone. Finally, if you are lucky and if the right reader comes along, the stone will speak. It alone will remain in the world to tell the story.”

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Professional organizations and my regular travel writing outlets

I am a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers, and the North American Association of Travel & Lifestyle Writers.

I am a regular columnist for Emagazine, the inflight magazine of Eastern Airways in the United Kingdom, and in the newsletter of FIJET (The World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers).

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My work has appeared in such outlets as:

Dreamscapes, Emagazine, the inflight magazine of Eastern Airways, Fusion magazine, Golf Business Canada, Fifty Plus magazine, Travel World International, magazine, Pet Commerce magazine, Motor Coach magazine, France On Your Own, Bear Country, the Vancouver Province, OffBeatTravel, Real Travel Adventures, Destinworld, Practical Family History, CorporateMarkham.com, CBC News in Review, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (CBC), People’s History of Canada (teacher’s material), Cable in the Classroom, Teaching With Television: A Critical Medium, The Canadian Parliamentary Video, Inside the Box, Ici Radio-Canada: le français de l'heure!, Une langue qui se voit.

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