I'm currently retired and living in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I spend some time writing and podcasting.

I was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and moved to Toronto when I was 21 to attain my MA in English, focusing on 18th-century English literature and with a thesis on Samuel Johnson. After a few years of underemployment and a semester studying journalism, I studied what was then called library science at what was then called the University of Western Ontario when I was 24–25.

My first full-time job was as a serials cataloguer at the (then-called!) National Library of Canada when I was 25. I left there when I was 37 to be Head of Serials Cataloging at MIT. I then had a few moves after that: to Toronto when I was 41 to be a freelance editor; to Kingston, Ontario, when I was 44 to be Head of Central Technical Services at Queen's University; and finally, career-wise, to Ottawa to become Associate University Librarian when I was 51, and University Librarian three years later, at Carleton University. I retired in 2020 and moved to St. John's in 2023.

Work is not everything, of course. A lot of this website shows some things I've been up to between days on the job. I'm lucky enough to have several close friends and excellent people in my life, across Canada. I'm interested in movies, books, reading. Johnson and Nabokov, language, and minimalism.