Publications

• Boulevard: The Magazine of Urban Living
• Torch UVic's Alumni Magazine
• The Douglas magazine
• National Post
• Globe and Mail Travel
• Globe and Mail Review of Books
• Globe and Mail Focus
• Times Colonist Monitor
• Times Colonist Travel
• Vancouver Sun
• Alberni Valley Times
• Alberni Valley News
• Western Mariner magazine
• The Citizen magazine
• The Peninsula News Review
• The Saanich News

Responses to Heather's work

A+ for Addictions
Thanks to Heather Reid for her insightful article on addiciton and especially for including Gordon Harper's moving story. It's good and useful for all of us to be reminded of the roots or our addictions and to think beyond the obvious of drugs, alcohol and nicotine. We all have hungry ghosts as Gabor Maté suggests. Confronting those ghosts, I think, is one of life's essential tasks.
                                                            
                                                           Heather MacAndrew
                                                            Victoria, B.C.




View from the profilee
   I am really honoured to have been the subject of such a beautifully crafted article.
   At Queen's I remember working on an essay on Thoreau.  A few weeks after we had handed in our essays the professor began a lecture saying he had read our work and he wanted to read out loud one essay because it was a model of how to write a beautifully crafted work that was like one integrated thought.  

   I do not remember the exact words he used in presenting his evaluation, but as he read it I saw that it hung together so beautifully, as though it was one well developed theme that seemed to just come out as a complete and satisfying work; no wasted words, no overdevelopment of any one part of the work, satisfying movement and captivating interest.  

   I feel that way about your article.  Of course I am a bit biased, because you did it for me (at least, it feels like you did it for me).  But I feel so indebted to you for the very sensitive way you selected the material you wanted to include in the piece and the loving way you crafted it.  

   The end of the Queen's story is that when the professor finished reading the essay he announced that Terry Whyte had written it!  I had not even identified it as mine!  I had done my homework carefully and then had ridden around Kingston on my bike composing the essay.  Eventually it felt like I had a small jewel in my head and I sat down and wrote it out.  I submitted it hand-written (it was in the 1950s).

   Anyway, that experience flooded into my memory a I finished the article you wrote, and I knew you had given me a great gift. Many thanks.

                                                                                                                                                      Terry


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Accuracy counts

   I have been meaning to write you a message about your writing. The recent
Fire Boat article reminded me of that.

   I find that your articles regarding the Fire Dept are consistently accurate
and without speculation. Often writers unintentionally add their own
conceptions to their writing, which can cause inaccuracies. You don't write
that way. 

   I want you to know that I am really impressed with your work. I am always
relieved when we get to work with you, because I trust your work.

   I look forward to working with you more in the future.

                                                               Tim Pley, chief
                                                               Port Alberni Fire Department

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