Updated October 2026
What has my time this year: a company, a curling club, and the writing.
Founder and chair
The Tool Village Ltd. is a BC benefit company. Its first product, Tool Crib, gives tradespeople and homeowners a simple way to catalogue their tools for insurance, compliance and recovery.
The idea came from settling the tools of four family members in under two years and seeing how much value goes missing when nobody knows what is there. A patent-pending marketplace, Village Exchange, follows once enough members are on board.
Visit thetoolvillage.caDocument.
Protect.
Recover.
President
President of the club in New Westminster, after ten years on its board. Six sheets and about 1,300 registered curlers in season, in a building that stays in use year-round. Fully self-sustaining, with no government grants.
On the desk
Square Pegs: The Holes Were Never Round and its companion, Square Pegs: The Casebook, plus an English translation of the Woldring family book from the original Dutch.
See the booksCommunity
Part of the Men's Shed movement in the Lower Mainland, connected with the sheds in Burnaby and Port Moody. Community workshops where people share tools, skills and time.