GENERAL

A brief novel about a youth who tries to go back in time and relive his University years...  not realizing that age is more than facial appearance. This novelette - I call it that because it is short - was written in 1976 before the appearance of the Night Rider series on television and the current series about  a 40 year old woman pretending to be in her 20s to restart her career. I had been living in Toronto for three years and I just felt the need to go out and try my wings as an actor and an author.    I quit my comfortable job to do that and during that time, which lasted about 11 months, I wrote this novelette...   it just poured out of me,  written in pencil on a pad of paper as I lay in bed in my bachelor suite at the Manulife Center Apartments.. While the locations and scenery are real, that activities that occurred are totally imaginary.. During that same time I hit the pavement looking for acting work...     My blogs section here will retell some of those experiences.. Then, 11 months after I left the job I returned... and lo and behold it was as if they knew I would be back.   My boss at the time  at the Ministry of Housing where I worked, Marilyn Janes, Director of Audit for the Ministry of Housing held my position open...  and I walked back in when I was ready.      

    St. Matthew’s was originally called Mather’s Church, but it soon became known as the Protestant Dissenting Church. This name held until 1814, when it was often called the Presbyterian Church. After 1820 it became known as St. Matthew’s Presbyterian Church, and the congregation kept that name until it became a member of the United Church of Canada in 1925 – it has been St. Matthew’s United Church since that time.   See St. Matthew's History