I have been writing since I learned what a pencil was for! And as luck would have it, preserved for posterity thanks to my dear mother is my very first poem, which I have reproduced for your interest, and respectfully submit with the subtitle “Humble Beginnings”:

I gave up illustrating my work, but continued to write during my teens. In my early twenties I published poetry in the now defunct magazine, “Canadian Author and Bookman,” and in anthologies from Creative Writing programs at Algonquin College and the University of Ottawa.

In 1998 I returned to writing full time after taking what I call “a twenty-year sabbatical” in the world of high tech and management consulting. Since then I’ve been working on two (unfinished) novels, several short stories and essays, poetry and now The Granger Chronicles. My publications since deciding to re-focus on writing are:

• “The Teddy Bear Warriors”: short story winner of the 1999 Chapters Short Story Contest for Eastern Ontario. Re-titled “Playing by the Rules,” this story was subsequently published in Storyteller Magazine (Fall 1999) and also in the Richmond-Munster Minor Hockey Newsletter, March 2004.

• “A Life Worth Living”: poetry collection, self-published December 2003.

• “A Rough Game”: short story published in the Richmond-Munster Minor Hockey Newsletter, April 2004.

• “Written in Stone” (lulu.com, 2006), a diverse and fascinating collection of short stories and poems including material written by myself.

I live with my family in beautiful Richmond, Ontario.