Adventure, discovery and exploring the unknown are all aspects of a great vacation—and a great wine-tasting. This summer we had both, when our trip to British Columbia brought us the Larch Hills Winery in the Salmon Arm area. Upon discovering at our hotel that the Okanagan’s northernmost vineyards were only a few minutes’ drive away, …
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Fine Lifestyles Regina has feature article about me
Yes, I know, I edited the thing, but honestly, the story wasn’t my idea: it was publisher Randy Liberet’s. And since I have a new book coming out (November 15 is the new release date for Song of the Sword) I’d have to have been an idiot to let modesty get in the way of …
Final Willett-edited Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon now online
You can now read the final issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon that I edited online. Just follow the links! Here are the covers again:
Covers of the last two Willett-edited Fine Lifestyles magazines
The fall issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon, the last edited by me, are now out. Here are the covers. (Similar, but not identical!) They should both be online sometime in the next little while. Fine Lifestyles Regina includes a feature about me, written by Mark Claxton, and although I’m not exactly …
End of a (brief) era
The freelance life is one of ups and downs and sudden changes of fortune, and it never pays to get too attached to anything. Even things that run for a very long time, like my science column, eventually wind down. And most projects never go on anywhere near as long as that did (around 20 …
The Willetts on Wine: East is east, and west is west…but which has the best wine?
Here’s the wine column my wife, Margaret Anne, and I wrote for the Summer issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon… *** It’s Canada Day as we write this, and we’re feeling patriotic. Today’s Rider game is even a classic East-versus-West match tailor-made to resonate with the Canadian psyche. This is a wine …
Latest issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon now online
The summer issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon, both of which I edit, are now online. Fine Lifestyles Regina features five prominent women on the cover; Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon has Vaughn Wyant and Lori Leach. We’re already hard at work on the fall issue, due out in early October. Clicking on the …
The Willetts on Wine: How do I rate thee? Let me count the ways…
One last bit of writing from the spring issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon, as the release of the summer issues approaches. Here’s “The Willetts on Wine,” the wine column I write with my wife, Margaret Anne… *** When you go into the liquor store, you’re faced with a bewildering selection of …
Up close and personal with Paul J. Hill
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 …
Cover of yet another magazine I’m editing…
What? You thought since I was already editing Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon and Fine Weddings Regina, I was done? Ha! The Fine Lifestyles empire continues to grow. Here’s the cover for the latest in its stable of magazines that I’m editing: Fine Homes Regina. Fortunately for my sanity, Fine Homes and Fine …
Premiere issues of Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon and Fine Weddings Regina now online
The premiere issues of two more magazines I’m now editing, part of the Fine Lifestyles family, are now online: Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon and Fine Weddings Regina. Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon is the sister publication to Fine Lifestyles Regina, and will be appearing quarterly (the next issue will be out in July, pretty much concurrently with the …
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