Now I Know the World is Round

After writing numerous articles for magazines, newsletter, and journals, I am writing my first book about storytelling. For the past six years I have been telling stories, listening to stories, and playing music at the bedside of patients in hospital wards, hospice and palliative care centres and cancer support groups in Winnipeg. It has been a privilege to enter into the lives of those who are ill or dying, to hear their stories and those of their families and the staff who care for them

The book is called "Now I Know the World is Round" and is a small book of folktales, stories and some poems, with my personal experiences and ways I have used the material with patients, their families, and staff. Also included are stories told to me by patients. For these, where I cannot get permission, I have changed names and locations to preserve anonymity. I have already received permission to include many stories and conversations.

I am writing for my own satisfaction, to have something concrete to show, as storytelling and music are ephemeral activities, but so far I have received so much encouragement here in Winnipeg, that I have decided to investigate getting it published.