I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate and have over 3000 logged dives. In 1978, I was lucky enough to travel to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun to do some snorkelling for a few days. It was long enough ago that when we arrived, we were the only people on the island. The boat had 16 people on it from a day trip across from Cancun. Having been to Florida a few years earlier, where I…
Quidi Vidi Village (above). After more than two years of waiting, we finally managed to get to Newfoundland this summer for two weeks with our friends Dorothy and Mark from Victoria.…
Over the past three years, Yim and I have shifted to a plant based diet and along the way, we’ve started paying more attention to our bodies and what we need…
Dr. Andrea Marshall is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and popularly referred to as Queen of the Mantas. Andrea was the first person in the world to complete a PhD on…
Nine years ago, when we bought our property, one of the reasons we bought here was because there was a 200 foot ecological nature preserve surrounding the development, which meant there…
For every gram of fibre we eat, we can increase our stool by nearly two grams, due to the fiber fermentation process in our colon. Why should we care how much…
The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, east of downtown, which is made up of numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within incredible heritage buildings…
We used to believe that our DNA was our destiny. The exciting news is that our lifestyle choices can impact our DNA. In 2009, Elizabeth Blackburn and her colleagues won the Nobel…
The Grotto, up north of us, in the Bruce Peninsula National Park, has become one of Southern Ontario’s most popular tourist destinations in the summer. Located near Tobermory, it’s close to…
I first met Michael and Mark Vansteenkiste of Twin Pines Orchards & Cider House in the summer of 2016. I was developing an organic Hard Cider with another partner and I…
The Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area is a 400-acre jewel on the Escarpment. The unique geology has created a veritable land before time, as deep crevasses cut their way through the hardwood…
So this retirement thing is finally kicking in. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road due to having to fight off the cancer I was diagnosed with at 63 but…
The name of the island, Manitoulin, is the English version of the Ojibwe name Manidoowaaling, which means “Cave of the Spirit”. It was named for an underwater cave where a powerful spirit is…
The First Step in Creating a New Life is to Get Rid of Everything you Don’t Want. Long before my cancer diagnosis, I worked to declutter my part of our lives.…
Known locally as “The Mingay,” after the family who originally owned and donated the land in 1987, the Creemore Nature Preserve is an important part of the local community as this…