I finally launched a long discussed travel presentation night – the idea gestated over the last year and was conceived when I was a friend’s at Christmas and we were all exchanging stories about trips to exotic overseas lands. Eventually a laptop was fired up and we were shown an impromptu slideshow. The problem wasn’t [...]
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Toronto author and publisher Michael Redhill Michael Redhill is a Toronto-based author and publisher. He has taught at the University of Toronto, where he is also presently the “Writer in Residence.” A few years ago, I was fortunate to have him as my instructor for a Creative Writing (Poetry) course. He has written a [...] We are back from our second trip to Costa Rica, and though it was the start of the “rainy” (or “green” season as tourism promoters describe it), we were lucky to get some fantastic weather. We started our trip by returning to the northern region where we spent our first vacation, in the El Tucano [...] Last summer, my partner booked us on a novel trip—we traveled to Niagara aboard the “bike train” for its inaugural voyage. It was a cool experience. We arrived at Union Station in the morning, after biking through a misty High Park and along the lakeshore. The press was in full effect, and it seemed half [...] Last weekend we had a pretty great road trip. We drove from Toronto to the Kawarthas and then on to Bon Echo Provincial Park. It was pretty awesome, despite the cold. Our first stop was the family cottage at Head Lake – lots of fun putting in the dock in the cold, wind and rain! [...] Cross at Finisterre – Robert and Michiko My friend Robert is a writer with a passion for the ‘Camino’ pilgrimage trail in Spain – he’s written books and magazine articles about it – and now he’s going to share his writing and memories of his experiences via a couple of speaking engagements. First up [...] Ferris wheel in Chernobyl amusement park Yesterday, the Metro newspaper ran a column by Julie Dimon, the resident ‘Travel Junkie,’ about the infamous Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine. It’s a pretty odd place to travel and reading the article reminded me about my first exposure to Chernobyl (forgive the pun) about a year ago, [...] Mike and the Bolsheviks in the Moskva Metro Well, of course, I’m not back from the “CCCP” but back from it’s biggest former member, Russia. I spent an amazing two weeks traveling in mostly southern Russia. I spent a week and a half in a city called Rostov (na-Donu) which is near the Azov and [...] Mike atop the Barron Canyon (Algonquin) I was born in August and my birthday fast approaches – it’s the 22nd! It’s been an interesting summer so far. Different work has come my way and all of it has been rewarding. My life has teemed with joy and appreciation and family/friend connections have blossomed and [...] It’s about 10am on a lovely Friday morning in High Park, and by this point my pal Coyote must be well on his way to Prince Edward County. The ambitious cyclist has about 150 km to cycle today, between his starting point at the Oshawa GO Train station and his final destination, Presqu’ile Provincial Park [...] |
Mike Simpson is a teacher, writer, musician and designer from Toronto, Canada. He is a new media enthusiast and has been "strongandfree" since 1996. Mike is working on new graphic design, developing websites and multimedia, and leading training workshops on weekends. Check out Strong+Free for his Design and Media work. Check out Mike's Edu-Tech Workshop site. Please contact him at this address: mike | strongandfree.ca 
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