March 15, 2023 Deep, Dark & Dangerous – a visit with Vickie Jensen and Phil Nuytten. “How many of us get to know a real legend?” Vickie Jensen asks me. She’s standing next to Phil Nuytten, President of Nuytco Research…
March 2, 2023 The British Columbia Review Interview Series – Introduction Segments with Editor Richard Mackie The British Columbia Review Interview Series has begun…and there is no better person to introduce The British Columbia Review than editor and publisher Richard…
March 2, 2023 Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat I recently ordered this well-thumbed paperback book, suitably enough, from a bookstore in Victoria, B.C., where I grew up. During my 1983/84 Grade Six…
February 26, 2023 The Harley in the Barn: More Great Tales of Motorcycle Archaeology by Tom Cotter When I interviewed Todd Copan, who had organized the Classic & Vintage Swap Meet and Show n Shine for over thirty years, I asked…
February 16, 2023 Motorcycles and our 2nd 50 years by Reg Kittrelle My friend Wes Taylor, who I’ve shared a few motorcycle adventures with (most notably in Zero Avenue to Peace Park) sent me this book…
February 13, 2023 Sahara by Michael Palin Michael Palin’s travel books have been a great influence on me. Before I began to travel (which really began in 1994 when I explored…
February 10, 2023 Reviewing Books I’m an avid reader, when I’m not writing or editing, and so here’s a space for future reviews of books, not in any particular…
February 10, 2023 Beginning to Produce Video Segments for The British Columbia Review In collaboration with the editor of The British Columbia Review (thebcreview.com), Richard Mackie, I’ve begun producing segments on a new YouTube Channel which you…
February 10, 2023 My Dad’s Bookshelf My dad started out as a journalist. He worked for Associated Press at the Times-Colonist building in Victoria. At times he was a legislative…
November 17, 2022 Lambart’s diary Of course, as a writer is waiting for his manuscript to be looked over by an editor, he can’t not stop researching his project,…
September 15, 2022 Desolation (Director: Trevor Marc Hughes) Documentary/ 38 mins./ 2022 Format: Digital Desolation is my short documentary about how, after a year-and-a-half of isolation and pandemic,…
August 11, 2022 The Fort-to-Fort Trail August 11, 2022 It may not be along the North Arm of the Fraser, but Fort Langley is a difficult place to omit when…
July 28, 2022 Researching the book in Banff July 28, 2022 I have to apologize for not having written very much about the progress of Capturing The Summit. I’m about to write…
July 28, 2022 Walking the North Arm and reading the news of the Hutowco Queen July 28, 2022 Although I haven’t been taking the long walks of last year along the jetty at Iona Island (I see an environmental…
September 24, 2021 Savage God’s The Shakespeare Project Savage God’s The Shakespeare Project Documentary/ 24 mins/ 2004 Format: MiniDV Screenings: YouTube Re-Premiere (Oct. 15th, 2021 at 7pm), The Celluloid Social Club (March…