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About Tony

Cycling 2015
BC 1986

A Hoppy Life


Through extensive counselling, behaviour therapy and Jungian dream therapy, I am quite comfortable with myself being compared to a red smiling grasshopper, the in-your-
face personality, incarnated in 22 post adolescent spaces and places identified in list beside this post.


It appeared in my dream smiling at me from beside my bed. When I told my analyst about it she proclaimed me finished.


I have since been reflecting on the hoppiness of my life, as I have, ever since I was a kid, jumped merrily and hairily from place to place, from one incarnation to another, from one set of friends to another, from one family to another. Now as I prepare for the final jump off into the divine, I look back on this chop and change, yet blessed life and I'm grateful. In subsequent pages I will continue this grasshopper theme. I'm quite happy being a grasshopper!

  • The Hague, Moscow, The Hague, N 1947-1950, Ottawa

  • Canberra Grammar school, Australia, 1957-1960;

  • The Hague International School, 1960;

  • Lisgar collegiate, Ottawa Canada 1960-1963;

  • Collège Neuchâtel, Suisse; voyages : Maroc, Italie, 1964-1965;

  • Queens University Arts; Choir; 1964-1966;

  • Shell Paris; Rue Berri; Rallye syndicat lainier, Total, Peugeot, 1966;

  • Trent University; History, WUSC, 1966-1969;

  • WUSC seminar: Morocco, Ivory Coast, Mali, 1966;

  • EXPO'67, Montreal, Canadian Pavilion, 1967;

  • Bawku Ghana, CUSO, 1969-1972;

  • South Africa, Johannesburg, Cape Town, 1972;

  • Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University, 1972-1974;

  • National Council of Churches (USA); UPUSA,1974-1977;

  • Broadway Presbyterian Church, NYC, 1972-1977;

  • International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CRDI),Ottawa, 1977-1986;

  • Gay community Organizations, Ottawa, Canada, OCDSB, Gay Fathers, MCC,1981-1989;

  • OCDSB, Nepean, Tech, Brookfield, Rideau, Glebe, Social Studies, Coop, French, ESL, 1986- 2009;

  • Cycling: Velo Quebec; Eastern Quebec/NB; Costa Rica; Virginias; Cuba; Nova Scotia; 1986- 2016;

  • Competitive Swimming/Triathlons; Technosport/Rideau Speedeaus; 1988-2020;

  • Ottawa University/St. Paul's University, 2008-2012; PhD 2010. Read the thesis here.

  • Christian Faith Journey; Ghana Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, Presbyterian,

  • African-based (Ottawa), Anglican Churches, Ottawa, Canada,1977-2024;

  • Wife - Patricia Maria del Pilar Rodríguez, 1976-1981; Children = Adrienne and Matthew;

  • Co-habitation (1986-2011); Marriage (2011 – 2024) - Alain Lanoix

Costa Rica zipline 2015
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