Zen Buddhist Monk Samu Sunim, with whom I, eventfully, shared tea in 1977, near the outset of my memoir. (Photo courtesy of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, Toronto.)
Chapter 2
Old carriage house, behind our home, which my Dad remodelled into his veterinary hospital, plus attached garage.
Chapter 2
Family home in Washingtonville. My room was upstairs, on the front left corner.
Chapter 2
My Dad makes news, as the first doctor of animal husbandry in our region to install and use a 2-way radio when making calls to clients’ farms. (1950’s photo from the since- discontinued Newburgh News of the era.)
Chapter 2
My Mom ran the communication equipment, at home base. (1950’s photo from the since-discontinued Newburgh News of the era.)
Chapter 3
Having mostly lived in cities as an adult, I’ve missed living near fields as I did as a youth. This inviting expanse was just behind my family’s property, but the land was already being developed by the time I left high school.
Chapter 4
Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, the night following its takeover in April 1969, showing that its power had been disconnected by the authorities. (Photo courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.)
Chapter 5
I’m just hangin’ out in front of my in-laws’ house, in the winter of 1970, in the calm before my life’s upending that coming spring.
Chapter 6
Hamilton’s Restaurant, Ottawa, location of my first job in Canada, 1970. The owner boasted (probably incorrectly) that Ottawa’s founder, Colonel By, once lived in that house. The dog shown here was with me when, alarmingly, we got surrounded by cows in a farmer’s field. (Photo appeared 1969, in the Ottawa Citizen)
Chapter 6
As a distraction while living in Toronto in winter 1971, I briefly took up painting. Here, I show off one of the fruits of my hobby. (It’s probably best that you can’t see the painting clearly.)
Chapter 7
My family comes to see the campus when I was studying, in 1972, at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Family members include, left to right, by rows from the back: My brother Mark and his fiancée Rickie. My grandfather Joseph; stepfather, Ira; and my then father-in-Law, Coulton. My mother-in-Law, Odin. My mother (“Bonnie”); and me; and my grandmother Rose. My then wife, Phyllis.
Chapter 7
Same visit. Left to right: Coulton, Phyllis, me, my sister Marsha (who took the other photo), and Joseph.
Chapter 10
When it came to buying used cars, I once again didn’t follow the troubleshooting advice of my favorite electronics teacher, to “just take a look”. This aptly lemon-colored car could usually get me to work…but it was hard pressed to get me up the hilly routes required to go visit my family.
Chapter 11
Kathryn’s family, at our wedding party, 1978. Left to right: My father-in-Law, Fair and mother-in-Law, Joyce; my wife Kathryn; and brothers-in-law Kirk and Drew.
Chapter 12
I’m shown exploring applications of educational computing at Durham College, with my assistant and programmer, Ken Evans. (1986 photo courtesy of Oshawa This Week.)
Chapter 13
Bill and Kathryn, just back home with our new children, in 1997.
Chapter 13
A cool part of academia was conferences in faraway places. When not presenting my research papers or attending others’, I took time to explore. Here, I’m approaching the site of the Greek Oracle at Delphi in 2009.
Chapter 6
This big tent was for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness Retreat, in 2005. The meditation tent was set up on the quadrangle of Bishop’s University, in Lennoxville, Quebec. The inset picture, on the lower left, is of Thich Nhat Hanh. (Photo courtesy of Montreal Institute Of Applied Mindfulness.)
