The Train From Airdrie Station
A memoir of music, addiction, mental health, and resilience.
An expat from small town Scotland to big city Toronto.
"I write about the memories of a time in the 60’s, as a child immigrant to Canada, from a small town in Scotland. How the culture we found here affected us, and me ultimately, mostly through music.
I write about my addiction, something that took hold of me for over thirty years, how I used alcohol (mostly) to deal with and mask my depression and mental health challenges. I write about how I came out the other side, alive, and still upright.
Sobriety is when the real work starts.
I am a songwriter, musician and podcaster as well.
A speck of dust in the universe with access to a keyboard."
The Train From Airdrie Station
1960.
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"Growing up in Toronto, we got a lot of American news. A lot of Vietnam coverage, and body bags coming off planes. Hippies. Riots. Civil unrest. Expo ’67, the political rise of Pierre Trudeau (one of my teachers had his poster up in our classroom), trouble in the Middle East, astronauts, the Cold War, and the last time the Leafs won a cup."