My last broadcast in Halifax: Audio

A week ago, I got to do something many broadcasters are never allowed to do: say goodbye to an audience. A lot of on-air jobs end suddenly with a layoff or format change, and people don't know that their last show is their last show. I knew in advance that I'd be leaving the company, so I was able to wrap up gracefully.

Here's the audio from my last day, May 5, 2014, filling in on The Rick Howe Show.

Councillors on the Hot Seat with HRM Councillors Brad Johns and Russell Walker.

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NDP MP for Halifax, Megan Leslie talks to us about missing and murdered aboriginal woman. Peter Stoffer, NDP MP Sackville—Eastern Shore talks to us about the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. Richard Zurawski drops by for another edition of The Science Files.

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Richard Zurawski drops by for another edition of The Science Files. Susan MacAskill, MADD Canada Chapter Services Manager Atlantic Region talks to us about the Nova Scotia government’s decision to enforce the five year alcohol ban on new drivers. We discuss fracking with Stephanie Merrill Director of Freshwater Protection Program and spokesperson on shale gas at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.

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Emilie Chiasson from Ovarian Cancer Canada talks to us about World Ovarian Cancer Day. April Hubbard, board member of the Nova Scotia Midwifery Coalition tells us about Midwives Day. Today is Scott’s last day at News 95.7 and he would like to know you'd miss about the Maritimes if you had to leave. Historian Peter Twohig gives us an interesting history lesson. Scott says goodbye.

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Today was my last day at work, and I'm okay with that

Today marks a weird spot on the calendar for me. It’s one of those landmarks that really doesn’t mean anything, other than to illustrate the weirdness of time and how we feel it. As of today, my son Gordon has been without his mother longer than he was with her. The length of time Amanda has been gone is now longer than the length of time we were a family of three. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, but that dangblasted calendar tells me it’s almost three years. I have not said a word about it to G, but tonight, for the first time in a long time, he pulled out the Missing Mummy book for bedtime. Today was my last day in broadcasting for a while, as far as I can tell. I spent the past five years as Program Director at Newstalk 1290 CJBK in London, Ontario. And in recent years, I was also the noon-hour show host, afternoon news anchor, a commercial voice guy, TV news promo voice guy, and more. Also in the past five years, I’ve bought a house, endured renovation

A request, as we reach two years

Wow, long time no write. I didn't enjoy this past winter. I was certainly in a long slump. Things were very challenging at work. Gordon was awesome, as always, but I was just in a sustained funk from last summer on. And I'm not sure I'm all the way out of it yet. I'm still largely in quiet hermit mode, but have been making progress at resuming social contact. Little dude and I have a very busy summer that will go by in a flash. This Thursday will mark two years since Amanda died. I still replay the events of that night in my head almost every day. I'd like to not. Sometimes it feels like forever ago, but sometimes I'm right there all over again. Hey, can I ask for your help with something? Two years ago, so many wonderful people told me that if there was anything they could do to help .... Well, I don't ask often. And I should've asked more. And I should ask more even now. I'm still not comfortable asking. But I'm asking for this. I put

Hard to believe it's been a year - but it has

One year ago today, we lost Amanda. Time plays tricks on all of us. We can think "that was so long ago" at the same time as "it feels like yesterday." I run into this all the time with Amanda's death. Yes, it feels like just yesterday, or last night, or later today, that Amanda collapsed in the kitchen and died after that long, brutal battle with ovarian cancer. But every day has ticked by at a pace like any other, and it's been a whole year of those days, with incremental and sometimes revolutionary change. As I move about our home, it's hard to fathom that she's been gone a whole year. Amanda's garden awakens, early Spring 2017. Many of the decorative items she carefully arranged throughout the house are in the exact same place as the last time she touched them. She had the vision, not me, so I've been reluctant to disturb her decisions on what looks good and works. In other places, I'm reminded that it's been at least

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