Why We Wear Poppies was written together with my eight-year-old daughter Nicole when she was a Grade 3 student at Monsignor Lee School. It was written in November 2005 for the 60th anniversary of Remembrance Day and published in the Orillia Packet & Times on Saturday, Sep30, 2006.
The Graduate was written to celebrate the end of the school year in 2006. It was published in the Coldwater Press on Saturday, Jul15, 2006.
Spring Is In The Air was written to welcome the Spring of 2006 in Orillia, Ontario. It was published in the Orillia Packet & Times on Thursday, Mar30, 2006 and the Coldwater Press on Friday, Apr14, 2006.
He Was There is a true-life experience. It was first published in the January 2005 issue of the Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart. In April 2008, it was included in Memorable Moments, a publication of the Lifescapes writing program presented by The Orillia Public Library.
The first pubic reading by the author was done on August 15, 2008 at the Lake Country Literary Lapses Festival hosted by the Mariposa Writer's Group at Swanmore Hall, Leacock Museum, Orillia.
