The author lives in a mythical place, rural Goshen, in the boreal forest north of Lake Superior, in a land that bears a resemblance to the region of Greenstone, Canada. He writes an upbeat weekly newspaper column called "the Gospel from Goshen", literally "the Good News from Goshen", in which the author looks with fresh eyes at what is happening in Goshen, in Canada, and in the world, and if you fail to crack a smile, he has failed, abysmally.