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A short bio of a long life: While raising my two kids, I went to school and eventually wrote my Ph.D. thesis, Ordering Chaos, the Canadian Fringe Theatre Phenomenon in 1999. In the 90’s, I was also a writer and director in Fringe theatres, touring across Canada in the summers with my small theatre company. I was a traveller most of my life, I traversed North and Central America by buses and trains, and once by motorcycle, and I have lived and worked in 6 countries. In 2005, the University of British Columbia (UBC) hired me to teach in the English department and I became a “Gypsy Academic’ teaching some semesters at UBC and teaching for a U.S. program called Semester at Sea. I sailed around the world three times and 900 miles up the Amazon River. To celebrate my 50th year, I took a long solitary walk across Northern Spain on an ancient Pilgrimage, I walked for 50 days. Now, I live on a tiny Caribbean island with sandy roads off the coast of Belize where I run a little guest house for tourists and teach online undergraduate courses in Writing and Canadian Studies for the English Dept. at U.B.C. PRELUDES is my first memoire, and the first of a Trilogy. View all posts by The Centre of the Compass