https://dragonfly.eco/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/EWS2019_writersworkshop.pdf Link to my presentation at EcoCity Vancouver last fall, just about a year ago now. Time sure does fly. This summary was for an ecofiction and prose writer's workshop I did, in affiliation with the college I worked for back then.

It's time again for another Fridays Before post, looking back to life before Covid-19. I had a strange and sad dream last night that I went back to work at my old workplace, and everything had changed. My office was in a different area of the building, and I never got to see many of my coworkers, who I genuinely enjoyed working with. I guess it dawned upon me that I may never see any of them again. Of course, that's because of a move across the country more than the pandemic. I spent nearly ten years at the college--the last eight in one particular department.

But looking at the way colleges operate (they are currently online only now) is definitely a departure from something that defined my life: being able to go to school, attend university, do projects with folks, mingle with fellow students. My old work's pub nights wouldn't be happening either these days. Nor our lunches or other get-togethers. I also really miss the students. I saw eight new classes of degree/diploma students come in--experienced just as many graduations. Some of the students I knew from before our move this spring probably wonder what happened to me--or maybe they don't wonder. Maybe they are wondering what happened to the world? To their future?