Stories we tell our children

Buying my first car

November 27, 2015 · Leave a comment

Spent a bit of time with Jack, a wonderful story teller and author. He shared this story about the first car he bought, a ‘hot rod’ 1950 Meteor.

Classroom moments

Community musical production by high school class

September 16, 2014 · Leave a comment

A talented English class took on the writing and production of a musical stage play about the coal mining history of their town. Jack wanted to involve teaching, learning and somehow include more people than just the class members. To

Classroom moments

Inviting Alice Munro to an English class

September 11, 2014 · Leave a comment

When a young English teacher read about a new writer receiving a Governor General’s Award for literature for her first book, he wrote her to ask if she’d drive two hours to his classroom in Nanaimo and be interviewed by