Healing herself from the abuse of a teacher

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Her teacher told her and the class that she was stupid and ugly. Here’s how she overcame this mistreatment. For more stories by Mary Jack These have over 5k views.

Making a business out of adventure

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There’s a market when you can find a story… whether it’s about an event, or the culture you’re exploring.

An exceptional year

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Connie’s keen observation of life, and her love of writing contribute to her exceptional joy of life. To view more of her stories.

Re-writing our story

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A psychotherapist shares a story how her ‘Rewrite Your Life’ process helped deal with grief, and opened new doors in a man’s life.

Newcomer to Victoria

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Bold, proactive steps to ‘breaking in’ to Victoria. Joining a community workspace, finding the resources, supporters, sponsors can be keys to taking a next step.

Jody Paterson: Power and place for Haiku

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The rewards of using Haiku as a lense for grasping the moments of greatness in our ‘ordinary’ days.

JoAnn Dionne: A spark of hope for democracy

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My first book, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China—a memoir of my time teaching elementary school in Guangzhou—survived the fallout from two publisher bankruptcies and finally appeared in 2008 via Dundurn in Toronto. Little Emperors was shortlisted

Slice Me Some Truth: a collaborative process

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The good fun in the collaborative effort in editing Slice Me Some Truth, a Canadian Anthology of creative non fiction.

Slice me some Truth: Canadian Creative Nonfiction Anthology

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Zoe Landale, one of the editors talks about the joy and rewards in helping create Slice me some truth: An anthology of Canadian creative nonfiction is a ground-breaking survey of today’s creative nonfiction in Canada; a complex and captivating field

Jeremy Taylor: No ‘good’ guys or ‘bad’ guys

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An entertainer/ activist working in Apartheid -South Africa shares a pivotal point in looking at everyone in the country without condemnation. Here are the rest of those great moments we recorded after his show here in Victoria.