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Doug Jordan

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Peterborough, Canada

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Executive Coach by day; author/writer by night, though these days it's mostly writer day and night with the occasional consulting gig.

I have [self-]published ten books so far: the latest project 'Alex' Choice', is the sequel to my earlier novel, 'The Treasure of Stella Bay', (2021) about a boy growing up in a small village in 1960s Ontario now takes Alex through high school and university. In 2022 we released my autobiography, 'My Story, Mostly'. 'Travels With Myself', another memoir, is about my transition through grief to a renewed sense of purpose; it followed a novel in 2019 about the loss of love [Amitié, A Novel]; three on career and management effectiveness [The 'Dynamics of Management']; and two memoirs about the family dogs ['The M ...more

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I shared an office with a distinguished older gentleman who was many times more, or less, the man than met the eye. A smaller man but a towering intellect, immaculately dressed, and a sly sense of humour, with a propensity for lickerous limericks.

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“I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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“But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.”
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― Marcel Proust

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“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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