MY LIFE IN SHORT FORM
When I was young I lived in King’s Point, Newfoundland. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth, but as a kid, I didn’t see that beauty. As soon as I got the opportunity, I escaped to the big city. In retrospect, my early childhood was a life full of adventure. Now when I return periodically, I see it for what it is—a heaven on earth.
Around Christmas time in 2014, I published a short story on a Facebook page hosted by my hometown. I received such positive feedback, I decided I would try to write a short story each week, for a full year. On the week before Christmas, 2015, I finished my fifty-second story. With a lot of encouragement from my fellow citizens of King’s Point, I have re-introduced them in this book. What I attempted to do, is re-live along with you, some of the memories of growing up in a small town in the 1950s and 1960s.
I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them.
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A DINOSAUR LIVES NEXT DOOR
When our children were little, they would sometimes say things that were interesting, sometimes eye-opening, and sometimes funny. Several of those circumstances prompted me to describe them in the form of kid’s songs. About 25 years ago I was a bit of a star in my neighbourhood, with people under 5 years old. Since I retired and we now have our first grandchild, I have decided to reinvent the songs in the form of illustrated stories.
My first book resulted from an incident that took place when our oldest son was in grade one. He came home one day after school and announced that he had seen a dinosaur in our neighbour’s yard.
This story is about what may have taken place had the event actually happened.
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Listen to the dinosaur song here…
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dinosaurlivesnextdoor@jerryrideout_z7ckg1
My second children’s book happened because our daughter wanted me to build her a tree house. When she was about 5 years old, I entertained her with a song I wrote, about a little girl who got her very own treehouse.
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The Treehouse song is currently available on almost all streaming platforms, including; Apple Music, Spotify, & YouTube.