Archives
With the summer issue of
Fine Lifestyles Regina just around the corner, I thought I'd post my cover story from the spring issue, an interview with Regina businessman Paul J. Hill. Enjoy!
***
Paul Hill says he’s most known in Regina for three things: his blue 1976 Mercury Marquis, his habit of consuming eight Diet Cokes a day, and his addiction to non-fat frozen yogurt.
Of course, that list leaves out one other minor thing of note: Paul is president and CEO of The Hill Companies and Harvard Developments Inc., companies intimately intertwined with the history of Regina, owning and/or managing more than two million square feet in ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 14:01, July 13th, 2010 under Blog |
Here is (more or less, since I didn't read it word for word) the speech I gave today at the Past Presidents' Luncheon that closed off the 100th Annual General Meeting of the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association:
***
First, I’d like to thank you very much for asking me to be your guest speaker at today’s Past President’s Luncheon. It’s a great honour, and it’s certainly made for a memorable launch of Land Surveying in Saskatchewan: Laying the Groundwork for Property Rights and Development. I’ve written more than 40 books so far in my career, of one sort or another, but this was the first one launched at Government House with ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 15:08, March 27th, 2010 under Blog |
It's been a busy week, writing-wise. My latest adult nonfiction book, with the admittedly not-very-sexy title of Land Surveying in Saskatchewan: Laying the Groundwork for Property Rights and Development, has now been released by the Saskatchewan Land Surveyor's Association. The release coincides with the SLSA's annual general meeting (at which I'll be making a speech tomorrow for the Past President's Luncheon), and the launch was held at Government House with the Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan, the Hon. Dr. Gordon Barnhart, in attendance. Dr. Barnhart gave a very nice speech, there were a few other remarks, and then I helped unveil a giant poster showing off the cover of the book.
I ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 23:08, March 26th, 2010 under Blog |
I'm in the throes of finishing up the Winter issue of
Fine Lifestyles Regina, so it seems like as good a time as any to post my cover story from the September issue: an interview with Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan.
Enjoy!
***
Premier Brad Wall: “The luckiest guy in the country in terms of a job!”
By Edward Willett
(Originally published in
Fine Lifestyles Regina, Fall, 2009.)
Brad Wall fully realizes that as premier, he has to represent the entire province—but he still hopes people will understand, if they see him at a Western Hockey League game between the Swift Current Broncos ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 14:39, November 24th, 2009 under Blog |
I know, I know, I've got a million things to blog about and I will get to them (Banff,
PureSpec, the state of Magebane, First Sentences I Wrote Today, etc.). But for now, this will have to do: it's the cover for the first issue of
Fine Lifestyles Regina that I edited. I just saw it in print today. I also wrote the cover story, an interview with Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall that I'll probably post on here after the magazine has been out for a while.
Already working toward the next one...and still looking for writers. ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 15:39, October 6th, 2009 under Blog |
[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/upLoads//2009/07/The-Washboard-Effect.mp3[/podcast]
Saskatchewan, as has oft been noted, has a lot of roads: more than 190,000 kilometres in all, in fact, giving it one of the most extensive road systems in Canada.
Not all of those roads are paved, however. In fact, most aren’t. And as anyone who has had occasion to drive extensively on the rural road system can tell you, while gravel roads are better than mud roads, they have their own...interesting...characteristics, of which one of the most annoying is the “washboard effect.”
Washboards are fine if you’re a 19th century pioneer woman trying to clean the clothes or the abs of a 21st century male bodybuilder, but washboard-like ridges on a road are downright dangerous, reducing traction, causing extreme wear and ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 17:23, July 15th, 2009 under Blog, Columns, Science Columns |
More photos
here.
Posted by Edward Willett at 9:43, April 16th, 2009 under Blog |
More photos
here.
Posted by Edward Willett at 18:26, April 15th, 2009 under Blog |
...because I didn't see it, darn it.I still have vivid memories of seeing a fireball streak cross the skies over Texas when I was about seven. I would have loved to have seen
this one.Oh, well. Looks like
they've found some pieces of it, at least.I've never seen a total solar eclipse, either. There was a near-total one in southern Saskatchewan on
February 26, 1979...and I missed it because I was away at university in Arkansas.(Stamps feet.) It's not fair!
Posted by Edward Willett at 15:53, November 28th, 2008 under Blog |
The
Meadow Lake Progress has posted an article about my visit to that community the weekend before last for a library reading. It's a good article, although I wouldn't take the quotation marks around what I supposedly said very literally...You can
read the whole thing here, but here's how it starts:Regina-based science fiction author Edward Willett isn’t your average writer. Actually he’s not average at all.The literary dynamo and actor stopped by the Meadow Lake Library during the evening of November 15. He did a reading from one of his books, but also interacted with the crowd and answered questions.Willett has ...
Posted by Edward Willett at 16:46, November 25th, 2008 under Blog |