ADULT FICTION

The Opening
a novel
new release coming in later 2024

Dive into a fast-paced mystery about the modern daughters of Pandora, as they work to regain their seat at the tables of men and their gods.

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ADULT NONFICTION

Dancing in the Kara of Te, second edition 2024

My karate master tasked me with explaining why karate is unique in the world of movement arts, which includes all other self-defence systems, dancing, gymnastics, etc., thus deserving its own name.

The answer is explained in three sections:

- The Karate Way Comes to Light
- The Inner Kara-te Dance
- Learning the Karate Way

For eight instructional videos on the Inner Kara-te Dance, click here or on the cover image, then scroll to the bottom for YouTube links.

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On Stormy Seas
The Triumphs & Torments of Captain George Vancouver

On Stormy Seas was published in 1992, for the200th anniversary of Vancouver's arrival on the Pacific N.W. coast, which he charted from southern California to Alaska - in three summers, an astonishing feat.

It's been long out of print, but easily gotten from used booksellers online.

Vancouver was a decent guy, with a kindly eye for Indigenous peoples and equal admiration for men's and women's work. The story is told in the voice of his older brother John, who wrote a book about solutions to poverty and prejudice that were centuries ahead of his time.

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Green Pilgrims Guide
to the Southern Gulf Islands

A narrow book, as wide as most tourist brochures and maps, that comes in a folder just the right size to hold these keepsakes from a unique place that's home to two of Canada's rarest tree ecosystems.

Green pilgrims are those who tour with reverence for nature, not only in the sites they visit, but in their travelling habits, going as lightly on possible on dear Mother Earth.

This guide gives eco-friendly travellers a good overview of a place so special that it's the world's only Islands Trust area. It covers about as much as visitors will remember, and it summarizes more than many residents know. A handy reference, with easy storage pockets for brochures and notes gathered on the journey.

I have a few copies still. Contact me if you're interested.

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The Riverview Lands:
Western Canada's First Botancal Garden

The fight to keep the Riverview lands intact for psychiatric care and training, in perpetuity, took decades to resolve, but it seems to have been won. This 1994 book helped, a small part of a huge concerted effort.

I co-edited it with Val Adolph, as well as illustrated parts and pulled it together for publication. It's out of print and has been supplanted by a different sort of book about the lands, but the history it covers and the logic of building on the enlightened vision of Riverview's founders remains relevant.

Used copies are available online, and many B.C. libraries have a copy.

See the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society's webpage, with many valuable links.

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Encore: A Program of Environmental Studies

In the mid-70s, I devised the Encore Program of Environmental Studies, co-authored with Patricia Keays and published by the B.C. Ministry of Fish & Wildlife, Information & Education Branch. It has a teacher's book, field trip guide, and 256 activity cards outlining with things to do before, during, and after outings, all stored in a wooden box, for easy, dry transportation on outings.

Encore won first prize in a North America-wide contest for the best environmental education program developed in 1975

It's long out of print and out of use, but still valuable. Contact me if you're interested in seeing a digitized copy.

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OPINION PIECES

For more than eight years, I wrote weekly opinion pieces for local papers. They appeared on the op-ed pages.

They started with The Tri-City News in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody. The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News picked them up for a few years, and the Gulf-Islands Driftwood ran my pieces for two years.

Click on the image or here for a sampling of some favourites and that show the breadth of topics covered.

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KIDS' BOOKS

• for parents, grandparents, other kin, babysitters, and teachers to read with children age 6 - 12.
• an illustrated natural history covering science, arts, vocabulary, numbers, graphs, maps, and more
• for active reading, with questions to ask, answers to fill in, pages to colour and add detail

To read a sample and buy, click here.

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A great Christmas Eve book for kids!

Christmas Island is brightly illustrated story about an elf named Finn, who knew Santa as a boy. He tells amazing stories to 8-year-old Penny, who is in a strange house with a babysitter, waiting for cousin Matt to fly home after getting lost on Christmas Island.

To read sample pages and buy as an e-book, click here. 

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