Posts Tagged ‘Articles’
Ya Gotta Believe
Thoughts on sports and religion. This piece ran in 18 Bridges a number of years back.
Read MoreHappy Returns
Why you should look forward to tax time
Read MoreRIP Paul Walker
Not a lot of RIP Paul Walker posts in my various feeds this morning, despite the Fast and the Furious lead having died a grisly death on Saturday. I guess Walker doesn’t have big profile in the literary scene. His films were middle brow. His acting wasn’t overly nuanced. So he died in the burning wreck…
Read More1 Ordinary Cook, 35 Impossible Recipes: Outtakes from a week in the culinary trenches
My article about cooking incredibly difficult food from the most insane cookbooks of the year is running over at Cooking Light. 1 Ordinary Cook, 35 Impossible Recipes (“Can a home cook learn anything from the supercompmlicated cookbooks of the world’s most celebrated chefs? We asked Timothy Taylor to dive into the deep end and throw…
Read MoreHappy Hunting
Buster, Buster. A lot of people have been through the loss of a pet. I’ve been through it before. Now, as of this past Tuesday January 29th, I’m going through it again. His name was Buster. He was a Chocolate Labrador. In just under 12 years, he became so involved in the life of my…
Read MoreThe Way Things Are: Fred Herzog’s Art of Observation
First published in Canadian Art Winter 2013 By Timothy Taylor At 82 years of age, photographer Fred Herzog doesn’t move quite as quickly as he used to. But then, few people ever did. In his younger days, Herzog was the kind of guy who’d jump on his Norton motorcycle after lunch and ride back roads…
Read MoreHome Again Home Again Jiggety Jog
I set out to find wild elephants. That was my big idea. I pitched the story that way. I left on the plane with only that in mind. I got much more. In a couple months, the article about my trip to the Yunnan Province in southern China will run in EnRoute Magazine. I don’t…
Read MorePilgrimage Redux
Gone for a few weeks to China on a gig for EnRoute Magazine. Spotty to nonexistent internet while I’m gone. Taking: 2 blank notebooks, 5 pens, a knapsack, and zero preparation. Returning with: 2 full notebooks, a crucially necessary new attitude, and photos of elephants. Enlightenment is an outside possibility.
Read MoreCoffee and Coral Snakes: Batesian Mimicry at Work and Play
From Vancouver Magazine Fall Issue 2012 *** Note: I was inspired by the always-fascinating work of Eric Falkenstein (at Falkenblog) in my application of Batesian Mimicry to consumer behaviour. *** It will have escaped nobody’s notice that Vancouver is a top-ranked city in at least three categories. We’re always high on those “liveable city” lists.…
Read MoreA Navy SEAL on the Full Circle of Vengeance
A Facebook friend, Canadian television host Carolyn Weaver, posted a link to a fascinating 60 Minutes episode in which CBS correspondent Scott Pelley interviews “Mark Owen” (pseudonym), a retired Navy SEAL who was in the room when Osama bin Laden was killed in his compound in Abbottobad, Pakistan. Owen has just published a book about his…
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