Willy Truth
This brief piece of creative non-fiction was written in 1999. The subject of the piece, Willy, was my oldest and best friend. He died two years later in an agricultural accident.
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This brief piece of creative non-fiction was written in 1999. The subject of the piece, Willy, was my oldest and best friend. He died two years later in an agricultural accident.
This piece is not for the faint of heart. It is my M.A. thesis (written nearly 20 years ago) by a less experienced writer primarily for academic readers. It is a piece of research and analysis on the ways that Canadian provincial political party leaders have left their positions of party leadership.
If you are interested in having a look, the link below will take you to UBC's summary page for the thesis. To open or save the pdf document, click on the link (under 'files' at the bottom of the page):
These are notes from a talk presented at a Saturday morning men's breakfast (likely in about 1993) at Hobbit House - a historic property of FBC Vancouver on Nelson street near Burrard.
This article was written in 1991-92 when I was interning with the Candian Cancer Society (BC/Yukon Division) as a communications intern while pursuing my professional writing diploma at Douglas College.
This is another in a series of profiles I wrote for the online newsletter of Community Builders Group.
This is a brief profile I wrote a couple of years ago for Community Builders Group.
This is the transcript (pp. 1-5) and handout (pp. 6-9 titled "Some of My Favourite Authors and Their Writings") from a talk I gave in 2008 to the Young Adults at First Baptist Church in Vancouver.
Fragile Leaves is the name of a blog site where I have set down a few themes of the early history of First Baptist Church (Vancouver) as I have understood them from the church's primary historical documents. In October 2011, I compiled the blog entries in a format that is conducive to reading in traditional print format. That is what appears below.
These brief histoircal biographies were written for the 125th anniversary of First Baptist Church (Vanocuver). The series was called "Who Was Who in the Pew" and told something of the lives of those who contributed to our life together as a congregation who have since died.
These are powerpoint slides from my presentation to Lord's Peace Chapel in January 2010 on suffering and how I have tried to respond to it. There are significant disadvantages to showing only the slides: there is no commentary to tie the slides together (on second thought, that might be an advantage!); and the interactive elements (excerpts of movie and audio files) cannot be included.
