After 30 lovely years as Director of Research, Training and Development, Spectrum Society during which I supported self advocacy groups and provided training and workshops to other agencies and groups, I became particularly interested in inclusive research groups and studied towards a MA and then, to my surprise, a PhD. I am the author/illustrator, editor and co-editor of a dozen books and currrently working on the 13th, which is about person centered planning. My passion is supporting networks to share person-centred alternatives in how people with disabilities can be facilitated to live lives where their gifts are necessary components in their communities. I currently do this by teaching at Douglas College where I have worked in the Disability and Community Studies program, as well as in the Indigenous Pathway and I have also taught at JIBC. These days I get to spend more time in my garden, traveling, reading and with my family.