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Review:
If you want another of those pseudo-sophisticated books by "hard-boiled" newspapermen, this is not it. This is a whimsical story of a newspaper family, the sort of book to curl up with in front of a log fire. Ron worked for seven daily newspapers or wire services and with his wife Sheila ran a public relations company and owned two community newspapers. They were among the more prolific free lance writers in Canada. Yet Ron started out with very little to offer except a penchant for making mistakes, and Sheila trained as a nurse. Only a sense of humor carried them through the rough patches, and that same humor illuminates many a page of this book.
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Ron Kenyon has had an unusual opportunity, during a 55-year professional career as a newspaper and magazine writer, publisher, and co-owner of a public relations company, to observe a great part of the twentieth century. He was the first full-time science and medical writer on a Canadian daily newspaper; the first Canadian elected to membership in the National Association of Science Writers (U.S.A.); the first science writer on the staff of the National Research Council of Canada. With his wife, Sheila, he established a public relations company in Toronto that operated for 29 years. With her, he became co-publisher of two community newspapers and an antiques publication. But this is not a story of "firsts". It is a human account, simply told, of a family, including the animals-a story anyone can read and enjoy.
