I'm Andrew Seale.
Journalist. Writer. Storyteller. Copy Writer.
Often I take. Maybe it's something you said or something you did, or maybe something you said you said or did. I take these things. I commit them to memory. I write them down.
For nearly 15 years I've done this as a journalist. Committed thoughts and ideas to print – not always kind ideas, but ideas, honest and true. People have beautiful things to say. Sometimes the amount of voices is dizzying. Sometimes I forget who they are. But they're there: the Tech CEOs and award-winning authors, mining magnates and reality television casting directors, National Geographic explorers and roller coaster designers, Canadian pop stars and Bay Street wunderkinds, sea horse enthusiasts and the 14-year-old who achieved nuclear fusion.
The stories people have told me have run in these publications – some still here, some gone; some expected, some peculiar still: The Globe and Mail, Profit Magazine, enRoute Magazine, StartupHERE Toronto, Canadian Musician, Yahoo Canada, The Toronto Star, The Grid, Aux.TV, Alternatives Journal, Travel + Escape, Metro News, Yonge Street Media, The Northern Miner, CIM Magazine.
I suppose, on most days, I'm a profile writer and business journalist but sometimes I pen copy for ad agencies or ghostwrite for financial institutions or cobble together musician bios. Sometimes.
But mostly, I'm here because I love words.
I live in a city called Toronto and from the right angle it looks like a grinning set of teeth with a toothpick in them. I wasn't born here, I was born in a tiny town and I've lived in Paris and Biarritz, but I keep coming back because this city is wonderful. Its people are from all over the world, the food is inimitable, and when the winds come in from the right direction the lake becomes an ocean and you can surf until the sun goes down behind that grinning skyline. I live here with my wife and daughter. When I'm having trouble stitching sentences together, I cook or I chase waves.