Doral
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired Teacher |
| Location | La Paz Col. El Comitan, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| Introduction | I exhibit all of the worst characteristics of my German/Scottish/Irish ancestry. I grew up in Alberta during the Great depression and WW II. I left home to go to high school when I was 14. I was given a teaching certificate after one year of university in Education at the University of Alberta. My first teaching assignment was a one room country school with about 32 pupils in grades one through nine. Three years later I left teaching to try other occupations. I was a bill collector for a year. I worked on power line construction. For a few years I worked on seismograph exploration. I have been an industrial instrumentation technician in gas plants and pulp and paper mills. In 1971 I returned to university (Simon Fraser University) and got a BA with majors in History and Geography. Then I went back to teaching for a few more years. I have also been a farmer, an ultralight aircraft flight instructor, a part time librarian, a project manager on the construction of a community water system, a bookkeeper at a radio station, and a volunteer firefighter. I like a little variety in my life. Strangely enough, I have been married to one woman for nearly 62 years. |
| Interests | Curling, digital photography, gardening, bird watching, world affairs, history, good books, genealogy. |
| Favorite Movies | The Passion of the Christ, The Lord of the Rings, Goodbye Mr. Chips, To Sir With Love, The Narnia movies, The Sting, Citizen Kane, The Road Warrior, Mad Max, My Fair Lady, anything with Mel Gibson. Around the World in Eighty Days, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, A Man for All Seasons, Don Quixote Man of LaMancha, Ben Hur, True Grit, Pink Panther |
| Favorite Music | Classical, but not Wagner, Also most of the Big Band music from the 1920s to the 1950s, Old style, pre 1950, Older style Country and Western, 1960s era folk music. |
| Favorite Books | The Bible, LOTR, anything by G.K. Chesterton, anything by Delderfield, the Narnia Chronicles, Turning Wheels and anything by Stuart Cloete, The 39 Steps, Sherlock Holmes and almost any historical novel set before 500 AD. |
In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?
But I am swimming. It's a SCHOOL of FISH.