Car stories
My best friend David and I were hooked on cars from a young age. His 1956-model Volkswagen Beetle started us on the road of some ridiculous and amazing car stories. And those seemed to have never stopped…!
Writing and publishing
As I mention elsewhere, my first business was publishing a magazine about kart racing in Canada and was tremendous fun to run for the year that I kept it up (it was even profitable after the third issue!). As a Journalism student, writing professionally has been a big part of my full-time career and side…
Website design
Truthfully, calling web design a personal business is a bit of a stretch — it’s been more of a side hustle from time to time. But even though it’s a part-time thing, I invest the time and focus to give my clients what they’re looking for — an SEO-friendly website that will work for their…
Wedding photography
Between 2007 and 2015, photographing weddings was the core of my full-time photo business. It was great fun and I shot over 100 weddings in that time. I loved running my own company and living or dying on my own personal efforts. It’s something I wished I’d done long before when I was a younger…
Business
I started my first serious business in my twenties, when I took the money made from selling my racing equipment and started a magazine (about karting, of course) and distributed it all across Canada. It was loads of fun and I was hooked. Business index In the years following, I’ve been a professional photographer, project…
Photo and video
My father started his professional life as a news photographer for the Daily Mail in Glasgow, Scotland, so I was exposed (pun intended) to the darkroom and the smell of developer early. Photo and video posts index With a crack photographer around the house, it wasn’t difficult to get bitten by the (shutter)bug. From early…
Cars and racing
In 1970 my best friend David pulled out his Scalextric slot car racing set and from that moment on I was hooked. All I wanted to be from that point on was a racing driver. Stewart, Cevert, Rodriguez, Hunt were my boyhood heroes. Cars and racing posts index We went to classic F1 and CanAm…
My stories
Travel, the places we’ve lived, family, and memories of long ago: these posts have it all. Inspired by my daughter’s wish to know what we did when we were younger, these stories are about the events, places, and people in my life. My stories index
10 years after – memories of my father
Ten years ago today, my father Bill Cadzow passed away after a steady decline due to dementia and a short bout with pneumonia. It seemed sudden, but not unexpected. It was his last wish to have his ashes scattered in Loch Indaal, an inland bay of Islay, the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides islands, off…
Why I loved to race
About 20 years ago, I discovered a long-lost teenage crush online. Thousands of miles apart, we spent many emails catching up on our lives. And remembering my obsession with car racing, she asked why I loved racing cars so much and why I had wanted so passionately to be racing car driver. She asked: how…