I’ve traveled from Aberdeen to London (by train), London to Southampton (train), Southampton to New York (boat), New York to Halifax (sketchy rental car), Halifax to Montreal (by a train massively delayed by post-tropical storm Irene). It’s been quite amazing to see the world from this vantage point… All this is to say: I will… Read More
Dangerous City III
There is currently a lot of media attention to the murder rate in Edmonton. I’m writing of danger of another kind – the near-misses I’ve experienced as a pedestrian and cyclist in the city. In 2008 I moved to a house in the West End, in Parkview. I grew up on the south side in… Read More
Renaissance
I am not a historian, and one of the great regrets of my life is that I did not take any classics or history courses in my undergrad or master’s degrees. However, thanks to the wonders of public education in Alberta in the 1980s and 1990s, I do have a fairly general understanding of the… Read More
Rebuilding
Living in the UK I’ve come across many buildings (or simply just stories of long lost buildings) that have been ravaged by fire, war, the march of time. Reading books like “Lost Aberdeen“, it’s amazing to realize just how much of the city has fallen under the hammer of time, conflict, natural disasters, and the… Read More
