I am a visual artist, writer, photographer and musician, singing and playing guitar at open mics with my small band. I have been making art for the last eight years when I retired at the age of 60, partly to help watch over my aged parents who were in a nursing home in my hometown. I had lived and worked in Toronto for about 25 years as a copy editor on daily newspapers, including two years in Britain in the mid-1980s on Fleet Street, and spent the last 13 years of my working life with the Ontario government in Communications, writing correspondence for the cabinet minister and speeches and ceremonial...more