About this homestay
I am a professional from both Ottawa and Toronto, with serious time in Vancouver, London, Kingston, Montreal, McKellar, Parry Sound, Manotick, Lac Ste Marie, Montebello, and other Canadian cities and villages. I have returned to Ottawa as of 2000, and where I was born and educated before venturing off for university studies, and to complete my doctorate in ADR and Sociology of Law, after getting my call to the Canadian Bar and ending my career in Toronto as both a senior level executive in numerous sectors, and corporate-commercial real estate lawyer with Toronto's best firms, and as a non profit organization leader. I have been an independent entrepreneur managing a boutique local and international set of organizations, for over 25 years, which provides me with flexible hours to address the needs of a teenager, younger person, or university student, let alone more seasoned executives and visitors. Visitors and others can be offered a very nice breakfast, while a teenager in school can be assisted with three meals per day with healthy snacks. I am wise first, intelligent next and learned, skilled at nurturing after plus 4 decades of teaching and with significant studies in developmental psychology and teaching. I would be happy to serve as a guardian and ensure healthy meals for the right match / student, or for a university student who would like a mature adult as living presence in a distinguished home. I live in a good neighborhood, near hospitals and medical clinics of all kinds, shopping, pharmacy, police and fire stations, parks, major arteries, public transit stops in every direction, and close to all Ottawa landmarks including the World Heritage Site, Rideau Canal with Commissioner's Park, Dow's Lake, Lansdowne Park, the Shoppes of The Glebe, China Town and Little Italy, the Mediterranean Pocket in The Glebe, National Galleries & Museums, Experimental Farm, Dominion Arboretum, all within short distance. I own a car, and I am a good host for people visiting Ottawa - doing so for over 15 years. I am a conservative professional yet cosmopolitan, and open or enlightened minded, professionally sound minded as a leader of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, upon which I teach regularly alongside my other professional activities. I am a devout man who is also a professional musical maker and performer, as singer-songwriter.