Reflections on the year past and a resolution for 2006

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Reflections on the year past and a resolution for 2006

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / January 6

The past year was my first full one as a Globe Real Estate columnist, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. When I started writing occasionally for the section in the spring of 2003, I didn't fully comprehend the enormous size and high calibre of its readership. An early piece profiled Lela Wilson, widow of internationally recognized painter and muralist R. York Wilson, and the butterfly-roofed house they had built in 1955. As a way of saying thank you, she extended an invitation to the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, a place I had only visited during Doors Open. We were seated at the same table as Marshall McLuhan's widow, Corrine, and son Eric. Both had many nice things to say about Globe Real Estate and my work within its pages, which surprised me since I hadn't been doing it for very long. What I soon discovered was not only that Globe readers are smart, they pay attention.

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