He is a features writer for the Globe and Mail and host of a television show in Ontario. His books are published by the prestigious Random House Publisher. People fly him to New York City, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Australia to speak and teach. His book, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son won both the $40,000.00 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Nonfiction and the $25,000.00 Charles Taylor Prize for excellence in literary non-fiction.