Just when we think we have it all together, we realize that we don't. So it was with Gene, who was three years into an early-mid-life reset, when a combined assault from his mother's boss and his daughter turned it inside-out. He had chucked a career in broadcast news (and escaping a toxic marital situation) and was trying a new life as a preacher on Maui, but this "combined assault" brings him back home to Vancouver to take over the newspaper column formerly written by his mother, who had retired.

Almost immediately, he runs into that bane of a reporter's life, a crazy person with a "hot tip" involving a TV game show. Digging into the tip brings Gene into contact with his ex, drags him to Vancouver's notorious Downtown East Side, the glamourous and practically-his-age female host of said game show, and the fury of a tipster scorned. Add to that his daughter's campaign to bring her parents back together, and Gene is back to wondering where that "belonging" lies. Is Gene's reset in need of a reset?

Recovering broadcaster, "retired" pastor, writer, Drew Snider was born in Vancouver, and has worked in TV variety (Rene Simard, among others), acted on radio, TV and stage, and spent 25 years as a TV/radio newscaster.
Drew spent a total of 10 years as a pastor on Vancouver's Downtown East Side, and two-and-a-half years at the Mustard Seed Street Church in Victoria, and received the 2024 Community Contribution Award from the University of Victoria Athletics Department. Drew and Amelia Shaw live in East Sooke with a cat and two Fabulous Poodles. Between them, they have five grown children: Drew's kids, Aidan and Hannah Rose, and Amelia's daughters Jessica, Megan and Samantha.