In My World

  Born Ruffians are a Canadian indie rock band based in Toronto. Officially founded in 2004 in the Georgian Bay town of Midland, Ontario, the band is composed of frontman Luke Lalonde, bassist Mitch DeRosier, and drummer Steve Hamelin. During the 2010s, they were also joined by Andy Lloyd (guitar/keyboards) and Adam Hindle (drums). Born Ruffians released their debut album Red, Yellow & Blue in 2008, and have since released seven albums in total, including their two most recent records, Juice and Squeeze, both released in 2020.

What do you consider to be your culture, and how do you feel about it?  

Read an excerpt from Who Was First? by Russell Freedman: Five hundred years before Columbus, a daring band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement. And long before that, some scholars say, the Americas seem to have been visited by seafaring travelers from China, and possibly by visitors from Africa and even Ice Age Europe. A popular legend suggests an additional event: According to an ancient manuscript, a band of Irish monks led by Saint Brendan sailed an ox-hide boat westward in the sixth century in search of new lands. After seven years they returned home and reported that they had discovered a land covered with luxuriant vegetation, believed by some people today to have been Newfoundland. All along, of course, the two continents we now call North and South America had already been "discovered." Before European explorers arrived, the Americas were home to tens of millions of native peoples. While those Native American groups d...

 What is something you are good at?

I do love a good lobster roll.  Not surprising the best guedille I've tasted have been on the east coast.  When I was preparing for our East Coast driving tour in 2019 I learned that the general store at Wreck Cove had the best lobster roll.  It really was good. We were back in Nova Scotia for an a week of R&R in Mahone Bay this past July. My niece-in-law's "fadder" is a fisherman in Newfoundland and he sent along 2 jars of salt-"brined" lobster. fresh from the sea.  We had no buns left but that didn't stop us from enjoying our lunch and stinking up (my husband's opinion) the whole cottage . . . LOL. That's my nephew, who is serving in the Navy, in the background.

 Where are you happiest? Describe that place.

 What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?