Great news for one of my book projects!

Wow! Some amazing news last week when to find out that a book I produced a couple of years ago is being featured as part of the course materials for the Community Rehabilitation Diploma program. One of the instructors, Cara Milne of M-Powered Planning, is including the book Our Journey in her course materials for the spring session of this class for students all across Canada.

This book truly was a labour of love, both for me as the project manager/writer/editor, and for the Lethbridge Association for Community Living who contracted with me to produce it. It was an amazing opportunity, to meet with families and individuals, to hear their stories, to laugh and sometimes to cry with them at the joys and challenges of raising a child with a disability.


My friend Bruce Hunter, deafened at 18 months but also a professor at Seneca College and himself an author of several books, said this about Our Journey... "I wept in recognition reading these painfully honest and beautifully moving stories of challenge and triumph by disabled people and their families - as they strive to experience the things in life most take for granted.  These are not strangers, but our brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, employees, our coaches and teachers.

The disabled are the world's largest 'minority', the 10% of the population that transcend class, culture, religion and race. This book bears poignant witness that we are not alone."

Thank you Bruce, for your kind words. Thank you to our corporate sponsor Meyers Norris Penny for helping to cover the print costs, to LACL for trusting me... and thank you to the families for opening their homes and hearts to me for this project.
Colette