Gary William Rasberry
The Old School House
Yarker, Ontario
E-mail: rasberry@educ.queensu.ca

My work, my work ...

I'm always in the process of slowly crafting a life that seems to evolve just quickly enough to (not quite) keep up with my heartvisions as well as my headworkings

The place my work comes from is Home. The Old School House. It's an 130 year old limestone pedagogical palace, the village's 1st school and now our home. I've created a studio space that enables me to make music (a place of practice, rehearsal and some fairly low tech recording), and to write AND to look out the window. Our two children move through this space and stop to make their own music and leave their own creative marks (to strum a guitar that hangs on a stand or draw a picture or rearrange a shelf...)

I have one book in the world, it's titled Writing Research/Researching Writing: Through a Poet's I (Peter Lang). I've been a part of two very cool projects of late; both are books (one is a book as well as a CD ROM)

1. The Art of Writing Inquiry (lorri neilsen, ardra cole and gary knowles) (eds)
   
   I have a chapter in this book called "if this is a bird course" (giving flight new meaning).
2. Dancing the Data (marybeth cancienne and carl bagley) (eds.)
   
   My contribution to this project is a chapter called "Imagine Inventing a Data Dancer" and an accompanying audio piece called "Dreaming the New Boat in the Air."
   
   I'm also working on a new collection of songs for fireweed, the musical trio I perform with. We are hoping to release our 2nd recording in the year 2002. fireweed's website, if you're interested is, fireweedmusic.com.

Other creative projects:

my children: hayden (who turns 4 in march 2002) and zinta (who will be 1 and 1/2yrs at that time)

life is good. i am blessed.