In June I was fortunate to spend the evening with good friends at a large and impressive lobster bake. It was the culminating meal of the annual St. Andrews Seafood Festival held in my hometown of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It offers more lobster (and wine) than even the most avid connoisseur could anticipate. While the uninitiated to the feast dallied in front of the myriad salads, rolls and chowders on offer, those of us who are the most mercenary of lobster consumers headed straight to the piece de resistance: unlimited steaming lobsters served on trays. ... Read More

I awoke this morning in St. Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick to a sound which has become quite familiar over the past few months and will likely remain for several more. I wish I could say it was the singing of birds or the sound of Bay of Fundy waves crashing in the distance (two sounds which I do often hear at my home).  Instead, it was the faint rumble of dynamite removing yet another vestige of the cliff face resisting the new divided Highway 1 as it pushes its way east and west across the province some five miles from my house.... Read More