Dialling up designs and initiatives for authors, font foundries, meditation and yoga teachers, regional and national health and tourism campaigns, classy small town radio stations and internationally-renowned classic rock presenters, rural politicians and globe-trotting (before the coronavirus) trainers since I set out with a dial-up 14.4 connection in a dreary attic office at the edge of Canada's foggiest of coasts back in 1998.

Commissioned to write and direct alongside talented advertisers and marketers in Australia, Bermuda, Grand Cayman, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia and the UK by agencies, associations and enterprises that brew, broadcast, collate, consult, cook, count, cut, design, dig, dock, dress, glue, export, govern, grandstand, import, impose, kern, list, meditate, mentor, motivate, plumb, politic, print, pulp, race, row, saw, serve (food and tennis balls), sew, share, shelter, steep, style, test, train, treat and waterproof, in and on everything from national news to city transit buses, billboards, coffee mugs, postcards, judges’ pyjamas and the web.

Crafting creative that has powered appeals, wrapped buses, warmed coffee cups, reduced resource requirements, blanketed billboards, plastered postcard pitches and even stitched provincial court judges’ pyjamas.

Not even remotely as famous as Cormac McCarthy but at least I punctuate my run-on sentences.