Clarissa P. Green has spent her life exploring and teaching how family relationships are changed by aging, illness and death. In her decades-long career as a therapist, Green has helped families reconfigure their relationships and conceptions of self in the face of trauma and aging.
An Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Green’s Continuing Studies Programs “The Widowed Journey” and “The Mid-Life Daughters’ Workshop” ran successfully for more than a decade. Green was a founder of Teaching and Academic Growth (now the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre), and she has received numerous teaching awards including the Killam Teaching Prize from UBC and the prestigious 3M National Teaching Award.
Green’s belief that personal experience is necessary for learning and growth developed naturally alongside a lifelong passion for storytelling. Green completed the Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio program in 2007, and her short fiction piece The Coin won first prize at the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival in 2009. Green’s numerous works have been published in anthologies, Geist magazine, and The Fieldstone Review.
Newly retired baby boomers, Irene Butler and her husband, Rick, chose to escape routine and trek the globe for a year. Disciplined adventurers, they experienced all the joys and challenges of travel and yet still managed to stay within their planned budget.
Their goal: to travel to twelve countries over twelve months for the same cost as living at home. Irene recounts their adventures with an ironic sense of humour, all the while immersing her readers in culture and allowing them to share in their memorable experiences.
In addition to being a first-time author, Pauline Daniel is the owner of Coaching Connections, a life-coaching practice serving women. She calls herself the How to Follow Your Heart Coach, which is the way she lives her life.
Pauline and her husband Jim live in a small mountain town in southeast British Columbia. Jack and his family live nearby.
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