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As someone who wanted to be a writer from as early as my discovery of books and the joys to be found in reading, as well as the pleasures of making up stories to entertain visiting cousins on our Merville farm in the Comox Valley, I eventually (after years of exploring the mysteries in the art of fiction while reading books for the high school English classes I taught in Nanaimo’s high school) found joy and satisfaction eventually in seeing my own stories and novels chosen by a enthusiastic national editor and published by his company.
Eventually my life as a both writer and teacher led to an invitation to teach student writers at the University of Victoria where I discovered both inspiration and opportunity to continue writing my own fiction. This (and eventually retirement) led to accepting invitations to conduct writing workshops in towns, cities, and universities across Canada — from BC to Newfoundland, as well as a writing workshop on Mallorca, Spain for a good part of a month. There, during four or five summers, I conducted a writing workshop for beginning writers from across Canada, and some from other countries, who flew to the island of Mallorca.