: About Me

My name's John Weber. I'm a former television and radio news reporter, present-day teacher and freelance writer.

My first novel, "The Point-A Lake Huron Story", is available at www.johnweberbooks.ca.

It's a great book-coming-of-age commercial fiction-and I hope you'll check it out!

Check out my blogs at http://screambucket.com/

My passion is ...

Writing (and Pam).

I know too much about ...

Anything that's trivial and doesn't make money.

My parents always told me ...

Save your money . . . but they forgot to tell me how to make it.

My childhood ambition ...

Be a writer. No, that's wrong. Be paid to be a writer.

My favorite memory ...

Growing up on the beach.

Why I write ...

I keep thinking I'll find something to say . . . like, relevant.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Tim O'Brien (Tomcat in Love), http://screambucket.wordpress.com/

My first job ...

Grocery store (box boy). I can pack anything.

My best moment ...

Climbing the stairs to Pam's apartment.

My inspiration ...

My mother (anything's possible).

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Accepting being middle-aged

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"We shut off our engine and the wind filled our sails. It was a beautiful clear night with a million stars. Cruise ships, glittering like diamond bracelets, passed us. Later, we picked up the lights from Great Stirrup Cay, ran inside and made our first Bahamas anchorage . . ." This is how my Saturday began, reading e-mail from a friend, he and his wife, to spite me, sailing around the world. I met Tim Ramm a lifetime ago while enrolled at Seneca College's Commercial Diving School. After graduating, Tim traveled some, dove a bit, and eventually made a small fortune after resurrecting a busi...

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