The BBC Radio program Desert Island Discs first broadcast in 1942 and is the longest-running music program in the history of radio. Program guests, including prime ministers, princes and pop stars, select eight pieces of music they would want to take with them if they were castaways on a desert island. The music is played […]

Russell Smith, the Globe and Mail’s men’s fashion expert, advises men to leave their Tilley hats at home when they go to Rome…if they don’t want to look like tourists. Most North American tourists tend to dress for a day at the beach not the city when they travel in Europe (and they really, really […]

On the blog Welcome to My MidLife Crisis, in the unexplained mysteries section, someone has taken issue with my Christmas short story about growing up in a mining town during the longest strike in North American history because I identified Campbell’s Tomato Soup in the opening sentence. Sorry! I like Campbell’s Tomato Soup, it is […]