Lillian (Lily) Bursey was born “around the Bay” when Newfoundland was a country. She resided in St. John’s with her husband and near a few of their many grandchildren. While raising her family, she also fulfilled her goal to attend university, eventually graduating with a Master of Education (Counselling) degree from Acadia University, Nova Scotia. Until her retirement in 1997, she worked with disadvantaged families in the Dartmouth/Halifax area of Nova Scotia. Lily was a member of the St. John’s Taoist Tai Chi Society. She was also a member and former president of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild and had contributed a poem to the Guild’s anthology, A Charm Against the Pain (2006), published by Flanker Press.Lillian passed away on August 20, 2019 in St. John’s Newfoundland & Labrador.