My son Tony, who writes for an ad agency in Ottawa, Ontario, is working on a book about Tradewinds, and I have had some interesting exchanges with him on a range of topics that fall under that remit. A musician and a singer himself, several of his questions relate to the subject of song-writing and he often comes up with matters that relate to the creativity process from an unusual angle. The book is a work in progress and more questions will surely come, but here are a couple that have already landed on me.
Recently, after I sent him a copy of the song ‘Postpone’ I wrote that dealt with the parking-meter controversy in Georgetown here, he asked: “Do you think that as a song-writer
