For more than ten years I've written a weekly column for the Calgary Sun (Fridays or Saturdays - sometimes Sunday). It also occasionally appears in other Sun papers. You can read this week's column on-line on The Calgary Sun’s website, plus a few of the recent ones thrown in for free.

Where are the rest of the columns from the last few years? Glad you asked. Let me direct your attention to the book on the right. If you write long enough eventually you have enough material for a book. A Chip Off The Old Writer's Block is a collection of almost 100 of my best columns (okay, maybe not best, but some of them are pretty good) and is available directly from the publisher.

C'mon you freeloading Internet readers. This way you can read my column in the bathtub without getting electrocuted. If you really want to read columns from the past in the tub (don't say I didn't warn you), you can read them on my blog here.

You'll also find a short tribute to my late father, Toronto Star columnist Gary Lautens. There's also a short biography and two of his favourite columns reproduced here. Look for his columns in "Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul", "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Treasury", "Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul", and "Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul". (That's a lot of Chicken Soup.)

Speaking of which, one of my own columns appeared in "Chicken Soup for the Father & Son Soul" (May, 2008). Pretty appropriate, eh? I've already cashed my cheque and blown it on a tank of gas, so I'm not getting rich on sales, but I do like the article (page 252 - thanks for asking).