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boyxelaboy's profile Alex Smith / Male / Member since June 2008 / Last seen 21 days ago

Over the past year or so I’ve started to dabble in this social media, Web 2.0 world and am intrigued by the continually expanding potential it has to fashion new non-commercial communities across cultures, countries and creeds. This is my first sustained foray into blogging. I have a couple of others that are suffering from neglect - Random Passages and the more recent Worlds of Wonder.

I’m a first generation Canadian by way of Scotland who spent my early years in Toronto. I now live in Nova Scotia on Canada’s east coast after stints in Europe, the Caribbean and Ottawa. I’m a communications professional and fell into it by happenstance. Nearly 30 years ago I naively strolled into the offices of a Toronto community newspaper to volunteer the services of a good friend. I walked out with an assignment to cover city hall debates on public housing. Since then, I’ve been practicing and trying to perfect the craft of telling stories.

Along the way I’ve been a small part of some great regional and national stories - the Atlantic Film Festival, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the International Centre for Ocean Development.

I’ve also had the chance to help other people tell their stories here at home and around the world. One of my greatest thrills as a freelancer with CBC was signing off with the words – “For Radio Canada International, I’m Alex Smith in Halifax, Nova Scotia” – and wondering how our local stories resonated on the international stage.

Whenever I drive by the big Radio Canada International towers in Sackville, New Brunswick I dream of those days I made words skip across oceans and continents. I hope the words in 180 Days of Magic will find a skip beat of their own.

Once a dad, always a dad that’s what my papa taught me. I’m interested in hearing from other dads about their trials, tribulations and magical moments.

My Blogs

Ta-daa - 180 Days of Magic

http://xelaboy.wordpress.com/

Ta-daaa - so exclaims my 2 ½ year old son Noah-David when he is engaged in something wonderful – a sleight of moment. Relatively speaking it seems to happen quite ofte…

Commuter Dad

http://commuterdad.wordpress.com/

Following a six-month parental leave, it's back to work as a public affairs professional in Canada's federal public service. Since my return, adjustments are being made o…