Dance Hall Road By Marion Douglas
Dance Hall Road 
I was born March 13, 1952 in Walkerton, Ontario and grew up near there. From 1965 until 1970 I attended high school in a place called Wingham. These were years of torment. Then, I completed a degree in psychology and history at the University of Guelph, traveled around some, lived in Hong Kong for a while and eventually settled in Toronto where my daughter was born. In 1980 my husband and I moved west to Alberta and I have not yet experienced a desire to move back east. Had a son in 1984 and my husband and I separated. Somewhere in there I started writing short stories and had a few published in literary journals and moved on to novels and novels are where I plan to remain.
I tend to like writers from the southern US and William Faulkner is probably my favourite, although I think one of my favourite books is Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson.
I am interested in what people are actually thinking about, since it is a great mystery.
For the foreseeable future I will likely continue to work as a school psychologist, which is not a bad fate.