Papa Lee is the happy grandfather of seven grandchildren. Tom Rather’s Christmas Tale was written for them. Lee served as a soldier and paratrooper with the 2nd battalion Royal Canadian Regiment and some of Tom Rather’s story is shared with the author’s own experiences. Lee likes to write, both in poetic and prose and hopes that adults and children alike will have fun reading about Tom’s adventure.

In 2018 Tom Watson had a quadruple heart bypass, he'd heard these operations could change your life and this one certainly changed Tom's. In 2019 he was retired and bored and joined his local U3A – University of the Third Age – and joined a writing group and then another two. Tom didn't have much to offer in the way of intellect but had real-life stories from what he thought was a rather boring life. Tom was persuaded by his fellow students to put together this memoir of his life because t...

In a collection of imaginative short stories, the Wise Old Chicken pops into the lives of humans and all his friends in the wild to save the day or simply witness unfortunate incidents. Facing a variety of perplexing, sometimes annoying situations involving diverse characters, the old bird must assess whether to intervene or dispense his worldly advice. From carnivorous giraffes and high-speed racing crabs to hostile cicadas and deadly cucumbers, the Wise Old Chicken’s hands are kept full,...

We are a society of armchair psychologists, who are constantly self-diagnosing. There are scores of books and television programs that suggest ways for us to reprogram and rid ourselves of disturbing feelings and behavior patterns. Bedrick is deepening the dialogue about the role and practice of psychology in today’s society. Much of mainstream or “pop” psychology give us plenty of labels, but does it go deep enough to motivate us to truly change destructive patterns? David Bedrick gives u...