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KW Productions has moved from Ash Croft in the beautiful Hockley Hills to the wonderful city of Stratford. Stratford is the home of the largest theatre company in Canada and is the centre of Shakespearean heritage in this country.

We have moved into a superb old Queen Anne home in the centre of the city. We are surrounded by beautiful old homes and enjoy the diversity of the street with actors, theatre people, professionals of every sort and a few kids. It is an exciting environment for my reflecting and writing at this stage of my life.

We do not have the same mandate as we did in the country – retreats, workshops, concerts – although I am sure that they will all happen now and again in a more restrained setting.

This past year has been one of extraordinary productivity. I have been invited to speak all over the globe. I did a series of conferences for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada's Good Samaritan Society in Kelowna, BC and Edmonton, AB. on spirituality and change. They were attended by their own people but offered the sessions to social workers, nurses, clergy and volunteers. I have been asked to repeat the sessions in 2007 in Lethbridge, AB and Vancouver, BC. I also spoke at their AGM.

I was invited to spend a few days in Surrey, BC with delegates to MUSE (Medical User Software Exchange) from all over North America. I had provided two days for the Fraser Valley Health Authorities 200 or so managers a year before and this grew out of that session.

PROBUS has put me on their preferred speaker list. As a result, I have been with big groups of retired persons in Orangeville, Bolton, Wasaga Beach and Aurora this year. My new book, Growing Somewhere: living life after mid-life has been a hit with them.

Hospice groups seem to want my presence. This year I have been with Bayview Community Hospice (now Alliance Hospice) at their AGM, the Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, ON and prepare now to be in North Bay for the second time with their hospice groups and then on to Huntsville to be with the Muskoka palliative care networks.

It was so good to be in Bruce County this fall. Brenda Wilton invited me to do an evening in Teeswater on grief. As in Walkerton a few years ago where we had 750 people from the community come out, we had well over 300 come from all over on a winter stormy night.

The Association of Community Living invited my once again to be at their provincial conference this past fall. I also did work for their people in Campbellford and Wiarton this year and have been asked to return to Wiarton to do some staff work. I love these generous people!

I was invited back to Winnipeg this year to be the keynote speaker at the provincial health conference for hundreds of nurses and medical people. I spoke to the MHO 15 years ago. It is always nice to be invited back. I spoke on leadership.

The United and Presbyterian churches have come to me this year to do some pre-retirement workshops with my friend Mary Helen Garvin, They have asked for a repeat next fall of ministers and their spouses who are thinking about retirement. I continue to do vocational assessment for the UCC and their ministers come and spend a few days with us.

For the past few years I have had the privilege of working with insurance companies and have done work twice for claims officers from all sorts of companies. Last year we were in Gatineau and this at the St.Andrew's Club in Toronto.

It has been a few years since I have done work with police. For 10 years I did pre-retirement work with Niagara Regional Police. This year I spent a day with the Ontario Provincial Police at their new headquarters in Orillia, ON. The sessions were held at Georgian College and were a great success.

I will be the keynote speaker with David Suzuki at the Long Term Care national conference in Toronto in the spring. I will also be the opening and closing keynote speaker at the Cancer Conference in Regina, SK in the spring – the largest cancer conference in North America.

Concerts have been terrific this year. My pals in the Valley – Susan Cooper, Jean Edwards, Mark DuBois and I did several in the area. Once again Billy Newton-Davis and I acted as artistic directors for the annual Christmas Concert at St. James Cathedral for LOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES (formerly Anglican Houses) and raised over $100,000 for the work of this great social services agency. We were able to invite Cynthia Dale, Richard Margisson, Jean Edwards, Womb Boom, Mary McCandless, the choir from the cathedral, Trillium Brass and, of course Billy and me. What an evening. Reserve the first Monday of December next year for your chance to join us. www.loftcs.org

On the book front, Growing Somewhere is very popular. Unfortunately, Hushion House who were my distributors went under, so now I am in lookout for someone else. Dancing on the Ark will need to be re-done as we are running out of copies. So look forward to a new and improved second edition. Loss of Soul remains popular.

River Ash is used extensively throughout North America in the palliative care community both in home and hospital work. I find that exciting as I never had that as an audience when I did it. I will likely prepare another similar work this year.

Stay tuned as there will be more action on the Stratford front as the summer of concerts arises. Welcome to our lovely festival city. www.stratfordfestival.ca