About Me
Born in 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Raised on a mixed farm by Partridge Hill, Alberta.
Worked most of my adult life in theatre, educational television, and communications.
Why This Blog
For much of our lives we rent ourselves out, offering our time, intelligence, and capabilities to an employer, a profession, a cause, a business, an art form…something other than ourselves.
And we produce…something.
A television program, a play, a water heater, a press release,
a bushel of grain, a pig…something other than ourselves.
And as we produce or write something, that thing in turn writes our story, and produces changes
to who we are and how we see the world.
Our world makes us who we are as we make the world around us what it is.
These are examples of writing or creation:
Not from an unfettered mind, because we carry our own fetters with us.
Not from an unbiased mind, because everything we produce has an ideological dimension.
Not from an evangelical mind, because there’s nothing of which I’m trying to convince you.