I have been enthralled by the age of fighting sail since I was a boy when I read the Hornblower series and later Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin Maturin_series of novels. I am now working on a nonfiction historical investigation, set during the Georgian era Royal Navy. In a recent online discussion people were complaining how one […]
In Toronto, the place to be late on Halloween night–for adults–is Church Street, the heart of the city’s “gay village” (although most gay people who live in the neighborhood still call it “the ghetto”). Just a few years ago, when the city began closing off Church Street for the traditional gay and lesbian celebration of […]
