It’s raining in Vancouver again and I know this is a foreshadowing of the winter to come. A warning to finish up with summer affairs quickly because the remaining sunny days are shortening. There is still time for a ride during the autumn and I hope I can get my bike ready to go on [...]

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Festival Vancouver has a special place in my heart because I have met people who have become important in my life at past concerts and the music is always exceptional. The first announcement of the evening was a change of name to “Music Festival Vancouver”, apparently there has been some confusion about the festival focus [...]

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I have been fascinated by the idea that I am being watched by surveillance cameras since they started to become more common in the 1980s. In 1989 I wrote a play that explored a vision of the future. It was rejected for a Canada Council Grant because it was too much like the novel 1984 [...]

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This summer, more than one dual-sport motorcycle owner has looked at me and my bike with extreme pity and said, “Too bad you can’t ride that bike off the paved road . . . ” They then proceed to tell me about some beautiful alpine meadow or remote hot springs that can only [...]

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Time is slipping away so fast with so many details to take care of to realize the Live More Lightly Project. One of the reasons this project is so complex is that I have taken life-cycle responsibility for the product that I am producing. The product in this case is a multi-media book, but [...]

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Thanks for the great portrait of me — in a helmet!
I really am pleased.
Click to view drawing of Victoria.

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My beautiful, big bike is 18 years old and accessories are not easy to find. I really need some hard luggage to do any serious touring. This fact has become very clear as I had to carry my gear in a bag all over the Folk Festival on Saturday. On Sunday my daughter arranged for [...]

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It has been raining in Vancouver now for a couple of days and I have been riding, because I put my van in the shop just as the clouds were gathering. As the rain pours down in a foreshadowing of the winter that will arrive all too soon, I think back to the clear skies [...]

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