My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Writer
Location	Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
Introduction	Professional writer, amateur musician, amateur parent of three adult sons, husband, son, lover, friend . . .
Interests	Old school dance music, ukuleles, tubas, fiddles, concertinas, tin whistles, hand drums, etc., ethnomusicology, nature, including skiing (cross-country and telemark), canoeing, hiking and biking, mushroom hunting, snorkelling, etc., reading, especially about the above, plus fiction, writing
Favorite movies	Mostly those made by people from other cultures and peasant or working classes, so I can learn about those cultures and classes while enjoying a good political, love story. Music documentaries
Favorite music	blues, trad jazz, western swing, cajun, fiddle and accordion music from everywhere, Hawaiian, gypsy jazz, calypso/soca, reggae, merengue, afro-cuban, west african highlife, township jive, rembetika, samba, bossa nova, etc.,
Favorite books	Cache Lake Country by John J. Rowlands, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Magus by John Fowles, Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller