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Edwards, Gail submitted April 2002, revised March 2005, revised September 2007
How to describe myself?
I have lived most of my life here in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I live in a household of two- and four-legged family members, including an affectionate golden retriever (is there any other sort of golden retriever?) and a silly, sweet calico cat.
My parish is St James' - smells and bells and social justice combined in a heady and challenging mixture. I co-edit and design our monthly parish magazine, and involve myself from time to time in parish and diocesan committee work.
My days are taken up with teaching Canadian history at a local college. Wearing my other academic hat, as a librarian, I am the bibliographer for a scholarly journal. I do the usual academic career things – balancing teaching with writing and publishing, going to conferences, endlessly grading piles of student work…
As Vancouver is temperate (mild and rainy for much of the year), I spend a lot of my free time between February and November in the garden (perennials and roses mostly). I've travelled a lot both for pleasure and professionally - I can be packed and at the airport in 45 minutes, if necessary. The constants in my life are art and music and books. I'm truly besotted with print (professionally and personally), and will spend many happy hours browsing bookstores. As a result, most available horizontal surfaces in the house have stacks of more-or-less neatly-arranged books lurking, which compete with the piles of CDs and DVDs (also fairly passionate about film), piles of academic journals, piles of the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books and…
And I still think I have more of a sense of humour than this introduction would indicate…
Egger, Jon submitted April 2002, revised December 2003 I am Deacon Jon Egger, aka brudder jon, Deacon to the Parish, at the Church of the Resurrection in Blue Springs, MO, in the Diocese of West Missouri. I am married to Marusia, aka da missus or Mary, and we have two children and three cats. Philip, our oldest, will be dropping out of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in January of 2004. He plans to move to Fairbanks, AK, after he turns 21 in May 2003 and plans on enrolling at the University of Alaska to finish his saxophone performance degree. (He is half way through his junior year.) Anastasia, aka Annie, our youngest, is 16 and a junior in high school. She is a free thinker and hope to attend university at Arizona State, where they have an excellent School of Design. I have a black belt in golf and dabble in digital photography. I write lots of poetry and smoke a good cigar when I can. I am a hard core Bob Dylan freak and know 98% of his songs by heart. |
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