Journalist and writer

Nathan A. Drescher is a globe-trotting journalist and speculative fiction writer from Canada. You can find Nathan's work in Android Police, Digital Trends, Ottawa Life Magazine, the Algonquin Times, Marketing Edge Magazine, and other publications.

Nathan has lived in multiple countries as an English teacher. This includes South Korea and Russia. He also spent a year living aboard fishing boats at sea. He didn't like that, so he came back to land and settled down.

Nathan loves to write about time, whether it's what our future world will resemble or how it used to look in the past. He mixes his stories with daring adventure and suspense. Also, food. Lots and lots of food.

It's time to vanquish ye olde word processor

Y e olde word processor of ancient lore. The venerable Word. The wily Docs. The inscrutable Pages. All these brave warriors of the written word now long vanquished by sleeker, smarter and better contenders. I, too, am guilty of forsaking my beloved Pages for the brute strength of Scrivener and the sleek curves of Ulysses and that slinky temptress known as iAWriter. But can you blame me? I am but a man who writes words. Simple words. And simple words need no margin settings or fancy title pages. There are no reasons for sharing my words with the clouds, as if a hundred other zealous writers will add their thoughts to my doc, live and in real time. My words need only a space to exist, and the occasional markdown so I need not lift my hands from the keyboard to navigate to a bulky options menu. Automatic saving and backup to iCloud is also helpful. Right now, I am obsessed with Ulysses. It has the markdown features I sought but could not find. When I need to italicize something, I ne...

Opus Tsunami Kindle Edition

Explore the terrifying power of tsunamis! -- Drescher takes us on a fascinating tour of the most destructive force in nature: tsunamis. Explore the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, look at the science behind these powerful waves, and then put yourself into the middle of the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Finally, Drescher takes us on a tour of the Pacific Northwest, where the Cascadia subduction zone is just waiting to unleash the next big one! "F or those who enjoy good literature I recommend." - Kaize George Amazon Kindle 5 stars Buy it here

Is Ottawa's Transit System Ready For The Future? No, and Here's Why.

During a summer of intense global heatwaves, this particular day stood out. It was hot. Really hot. Here in Ottawa, Canada's capital city of 1.1 million people, the thermometer surpassed 41 degrees centigrade with the humidex. That's hot. So it was on this scorching August day that I thought I would take my three-year-old daughter on a transit trip to the Rideau Centre. It's a large mall in the downtown core. After all, the buses, subway, and mall were all nicely air-conditioned. OC Transpo, Ottawa's transit authority, had different ideas. I quickly realized that Canada has a serious transit crisis. Because it's summer, my kids are out of school. We took my daughter out of daycare because face it, that's too expensive (a completely different issue I'll tackle another time). Thankfully we put our son in a day camp for two weeks. My wife was working full-time for the feds. It was just my daughter and I. Daddy and daughter time! We spent the week hanging out....

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