Welcome once again to my new web-site. I'm just learning things like how to administer my own site and how to add blog postings like this one. Here is the website of Dakota Park, a Toronto based designer who is carving out a niche for himself in the world of design and with whom I worked to put this site together. If you like my site - see if you can get Dakota to help with yours! See: www.dakotaleepark.com
Welcome to my blog
Please return often to read about my path to becoming a children’s novelist, poet and storyteller. I will also use this space to say thank-you to all the wonderful people who helped make this happen. I’d love to hear your comments and will answer every email.
Jeff, what prompted you to write this story?
As a tourism consultant living in South Porcupine, Ontario, I travelled my James Bay Frontier route by train and by plane. I fell in love with the landscape at Moose River Crossing where the train tracks cross the mighty river before the train rolls into Moosonee. It was there that I would dream of opening a birder’s lodge. These wonderful memories provide the setting for the story. I am also a soapstone carver, having learned the art from a Cree elder, with roots in Moose Factory. He gave me lessons and provided me with my first piece of stone. I carved a bear cub. As well I am a conservationist and someone with a deep appreciation for the northern landscape and the people who call the James Bay Frontier their home. All of the above came together and the result is my story “Soapstone Signs.”