about me
Last updated: July 22, 2007

 

Born & Raised

I was born during the last century (1971) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  My family moved to the town of Grimshaw, Alberta when I was about two years old.  When I was nine, we moved from that town to a farm about eight kilometres away.

When I was seventeen I left home to attend university and never returned, living in Camrose, Alberta for one year, in Whitecourt, Alberta during a couple of summer breaks, and then in Edmonton, Alberta until 1999.  From 1999 until 2004 I lived in Bon Accord, Alberta, and I now live in Edmonton again.

Learning

  • Holy Family Separate School, Grimshaw, AB (Grade 1-9)

  • Glenmary School, Peace River, AB (Grade 10-12)

  • Augustana University College, Camrose, AB (first year)

  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

    • B.A. Honours in English

    • M.A in English

    • B.Ed. in Secondary Education

Earning a Living

I've done various jobs while I was in school:  sub shop sandwich maker, office assistant, labourer, landscaper, telemarketer, phone researcher, radio operator, and library assistant.

For the last eleven years I've worked as a junior high school teacher, teaching mostly Computers and a little bit of Language Arts.  For the past three years, I've worked at T.D. Baker School.  This coming school year, I will be teaching two grade 8 Language Arts, two grade 7 Computers classes, 1 grade 8 Computers, and 1 grade 9 Computers.

I hesitate to put this next bit under the section, "Earning a Living", since it doesn't really apply, not for lack of my trying though.  I also am a poet, songwriter and would-be novelist, and work part time as a teacher to essentially support this writing habit.  Check out my writing section to read more about my vocation.

Goofing Off

  • Writing poems & songs

  • Visiting & writing friends

  • Playing drums, guitar, singing, learning piano

  • Recording songs

  • Reading

  • Playing on the computer

  • Collecting coins and stamps

  • Clothes shopping

  • Running a webzine called WebLitCan

Non-court-ordered Community Service

I volunteer at my synagogue's library and help out with our Women's League.

Soul Food

I'm Jewish, by choice.   I go to Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Edmonton.

The story of that choice is told on the Jews For Judaism website and in this essay.