Year of the Dogs"We'll just drive out there and get them." That's how it started. I'm not even sure we were serious. My friend Alexis wanted to adopt a...
#ProjectPuppies: Snow DogsI must have let out the breath I didn't realize I was holding, because beside me, Jesse stirred awake in the passenger seat. "You good,...
#ProjectPuppies: Turn and Burn"If this dog survives," I thought to myself as I tilted a water dish to Rosie's lips so she could drink, weakly, from where she lay, "I...
#ProjectPuppies: We DeliverThere's an art to a middle-of-the-night, eighteen-puppy pit stop. Done right, it's almost poetic, a synchronicity of humans and dogs, pee...
Drop Everything And DogOf all the things I imagined doing when I bought my truck, cradling a mama dog on the tailgate by the side of the highway while she...
#ProjectPuppies: Cannonball Run"Let's make a pact," I told Alexis, somewhere early in our 3700km rescue dog cannonball run to northern Saskatchewan and back. "No matter...
#ProjectPuppies"What on earth have we gotten ourselves into?" I asked myself, my stomach churning with a bad case of nerves as I piloted the truck north...
An Icelandic Saga: Reykjavik NightsI'd intended to be lazy, once I arrived in Landmannalaugar at the top end of Iceland's famous 57km Laugavegur trail. I'd completed the...
An Icelandic Saga: Laugavegur"I'm made for this," I thought, as I descended the last leg of Iceland's famous Laugavegur trail, picking my way across a barren plain of...
An Icelandic Saga: Hrafntinnusker"I would kill a man for an orange," I thought, as I sat shovelling yet more trail mix into my mouth amid freezing rain and sulphurous...