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Rough Around the Edges: Selected Poems By Sam Edge
Poetry Chapbook by Sam Edge.
54 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 5, 2013
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Sam Edge
7 books15 followersSam is a self-published author and strategic planner born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1966. Sam has lived an eventful life full of successes and failures, challenges and opportunities. As a teenager and young adult, he was wildly rebellious and not known for playing well with the other kids. Sam found himself in all sorts of trouble, including run-ins with the law and addiction. He credits these experiences as a valuable part of his education.
Sam struggled in school with undiagnosed dyslexia and ended up quitting in grade 11. Sam spent the next decade travelling up and down the West Coast of Canada and the US prospecting and claim staking. In the early 1990's the mining industry collapsed in British Columbia due to political instability. At the time Sam was twenty-something and supervising bush crews up to seventy employees. Sam's prospecting days came to a screeching halt along with the mining industry.
He then found success as a general manager and consultant working with Indigenous communities on business and community development projects. These projects included: Treaty negotiations, construction of a 9-hole golf course, a value-added wood mill, a big box development and dozens of residential development projects. For six years Sam ran a community-owned development corporation where he was again responsible for the supervision of up to seventy people. After a complete change in leadership this also came to an abrupt halt. Sam went on to enjoy success as a planning consultant.
In between successes and near misses, Sam earned his high school diploma and attended University as a mature student. He thrived in the self-directed learning format of University and was able to secure a B+ average. He began his academic career studying fine arts, however, ended up with majors in geography and economics. Sam went on to obtain graduate level education that qualified him for Membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners as a Registered Professional Planner (RPP), which he maintains to this day. Sam is convinced he is educated well beyond his natural intelligence and follows Mark Twain's advice never to let his "schooling interfere with his education."
Until recently, Sam and his wife Wenona owned and operated Orbis Consulting, a successful planning and environmental consulting practice. With the recent arrival of their third daughter, Abigail, they decided to focus on family and let go of the stressful pace, travel and long hours of the highly competitive consulting game. They have now restructured Orbis Consulting to Orbis Publishing, which they now run together from their home.
In 2008 Sam was struck by lightning and is convinced that he now has superpowers. Almost immediately following the strike, at the tender age of 44, he launched a vigorous karate / kickboxing training regiment that saw him awarded gold medals in both the Provincial and National 2011 World Karate and Kickboxing Council (WKC) continuous fighting competitions. We are all waiting to see how the superpowers will turn out.
Sam struggled in school with undiagnosed dyslexia and ended up quitting in grade 11. Sam spent the next decade travelling up and down the West Coast of Canada and the US prospecting and claim staking. In the early 1990's the mining industry collapsed in British Columbia due to political instability. At the time Sam was twenty-something and supervising bush crews up to seventy employees. Sam's prospecting days came to a screeching halt along with the mining industry.
He then found success as a general manager and consultant working with Indigenous communities on business and community development projects. These projects included: Treaty negotiations, construction of a 9-hole golf course, a value-added wood mill, a big box development and dozens of residential development projects. For six years Sam ran a community-owned development corporation where he was again responsible for the supervision of up to seventy people. After a complete change in leadership this also came to an abrupt halt. Sam went on to enjoy success as a planning consultant.
In between successes and near misses, Sam earned his high school diploma and attended University as a mature student. He thrived in the self-directed learning format of University and was able to secure a B+ average. He began his academic career studying fine arts, however, ended up with majors in geography and economics. Sam went on to obtain graduate level education that qualified him for Membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners as a Registered Professional Planner (RPP), which he maintains to this day. Sam is convinced he is educated well beyond his natural intelligence and follows Mark Twain's advice never to let his "schooling interfere with his education."
Until recently, Sam and his wife Wenona owned and operated Orbis Consulting, a successful planning and environmental consulting practice. With the recent arrival of their third daughter, Abigail, they decided to focus on family and let go of the stressful pace, travel and long hours of the highly competitive consulting game. They have now restructured Orbis Consulting to Orbis Publishing, which they now run together from their home.
In 2008 Sam was struck by lightning and is convinced that he now has superpowers. Almost immediately following the strike, at the tender age of 44, he launched a vigorous karate / kickboxing training regiment that saw him awarded gold medals in both the Provincial and National 2011 World Karate and Kickboxing Council (WKC) continuous fighting competitions. We are all waiting to see how the superpowers will turn out.
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