• Age: 15 to 18
• Grade: 10 to 12

Teaching is an education! In this collection of stories, Dianne Miller invites us to join her as she recalls her educational journey, first as a student and then as a long-time educator. We ride on a bumpy school bus, ring the bell in the principal’s office, navigate delicately around a lovesick teen, and endure/enjoy adolescent shenanigans and wisecracks. Miller is both entertaining and introspective as she considers the personal, pedagogical and societal changes she experienced over many years as a teacher and administrator. Her love for her students, for her colleagues, and for the education profession itself is evident on every page.

A retired school teacher/administrator living in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Dianne Miller holds a B.Ed. and B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration, and Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Regina. After a thirty-one-year career in education, she is pursuing a life-long interest in creative writing. Of the nine schools at which she taught, three have been demolished and three repurposed; Dianne is beginning to feel like a prairie grain elevator—soon to be a distant memory.

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Lori Bradford has been painting, drawing, print-making, and sewing all her life. She’s a mixed media artist, originally from Prince Albert, SK, who finds inspiration from her environment using paint, watercolours, pens, pencils, Inktense pencils, markers, collage, stitching, free motion quilting, leather, silk, and beads to create art in a myriad of forms. Since 2012, Lori has resided in two unique, inspirational landscapes – the boreal forest on the bank of the Saskatchewan River and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, just a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico. loribradfordsart.com.

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