“Don’t think twice it’s alright,” Bob Dylan says in the lyrics of the first song of his I ever heard, way back when we were both much older. We’re younger than that now, aren’t we Bob? Continue reading →

The size of the crowd spoke volumes about how much people on the Bruce Peninsula are concerned about the future of area tourism:

Well before the meeting, organized by the Bruce Peninsula Environment Group, began this past Wednesday evening the venerable old Rotary Hall was already close to standing-room only attendance. BPEG chair Megan Myles told me it was about twice the number of people she was expecting.

That posed some problems keeping the well-organized agenda on schedule, and members of the group now have their own challenge, with their hands and heads full of sticky-note “issues and challenges” and plenty of ideas to help chart a new course for the future of local tourism.

One could say, and I will, that the present state of tourism on the peninsula represents an abundance of problems, the people who worked so hard for years to promote local tourism might wish they could have had. Continue reading →

The “little piece of Heaven” at the end of Cathedral Drive, Hope Ness

Millions of readers out there in the blogosphere may have wondered where the once-prolific Finding Hope Ness blogger had vanished for so long since his last post.

It’s all about the weight of unfinished business, too many things piling up as winter approaches, and – sniff – too many things gone wrong in my “little piece of Heaven.” Continue reading →