

Crafting a New Life
From suburban Calgary to a rural home on the bank of the Saint John River, is a big change. Teaching for 25 or so years, retiring and leaving that professional life at the same time makes it even bigger. So, as one friend digested that news, and thought about where I was living, the isolation, the change in environment and a new beginning at this stage of my life, she asked me in mock horror, "Deb, what do you do all day? Aren't you bored?" It was a good question, and probab