From the Ashes of My Dreams

by Ed Smith

Overview

Humor writer Ed Smiths inspiring story of his struggle to come to grips with quadriplegia after a motor vehicle accident.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897317846
Publisher:	Flanker Press
Publication date:	05/13/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	620 KB

About the Author

Ed Smith has taught in schools all over Newfoundland, finally settling in Springdale, where he and his wife, Marion, still live. He has been a high school principal, an assistant superintendent of education, and principal of a college campus in Springdale. Ed retired in 1996, just over two years before a car accident left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. He began writing a humour column for the local newspaper in 1980. Other papers soon began running the column, so that today “The View from Here” appears in six papers and magazines. He has been nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for humour and has written for the Toronto Star and Reader’s Digest. In 2001 Ed prepared a series of short radio clips on life with quadriplegia, which he wrote and presented on CBC radio. These earned him The Canadian Nurses’ Association award for excellence in broadcasting and an international Gabriel award for writing that “upholds and uplifts the human spirit.” Ed has been recognized by the Atlantic Community Newspapers Association for “hilarious” material. Five collections of his columns have also been published. Ed Smith and his wife have four children and six grandchildren.