So my crazy seven-week travel-blogging gig across Canada has just started and I am now in Quebec City, sitting in swank hotel room and trying to tell myself that this is not a dream. Until mid-August, I will be traveling the country and writing two blog posts a day, on top of interacting with readers [...]
(This is an article I wrote for Community Contact ‘s upcoming edition. Montreal represent! B-Ball Coach Instills Confidence to Shoot for the Stars by Carolyne Weldon Though coach Shawn Alleyne happens to be really good at teaching boys how to play basketball, what drives him is the hope that the confidence and work ethic they [...]
This is the contract whose description was forwarded to me by email, along with the message: “too good to be true”, followed by a string of ponctuation marks. Getting paid to blog and take photographs while traveling across every single Canadian province and territory; from Nunavut to Halifax, to Quebec City to Yellow Knife, and [...]
As the world’s attention is consumed by fears of a swine flu pandemic and recaps of Barack Obama’s first 100 days, a Somali teenager has become the first person to face piracy charges in a US court for over a hundred years. Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse was part of the group of four pirates who tried to hijack a ship off the [...]