Don't Name the Ducks
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About the Author
Wendy Dudley, an Ontario-born writer, artist, and media consultant, has called Alberta home since 1977. Bestowed with an avid curiosity about life, she spent 15 years as a reporter with the Calgary Herald, covering Native affairs, country music, rural issues, and western heritage.
Wendy now works from her home in the Alberta foothills, where she lives with her mother, a mule, two donkeys, two dogs, and a varying number of barn cats. She has written and narrated stories about her life in the high country for CBC Radio; her writing also appears in several publications, including the Western Producer, Alberta Crops and Beef, AlbertaViews, Legacy, and EnviroLine. Practising what she preaches, Wendy believes that people should enjoy life, that peaceful retreats are as much cerebral as they are physical, and that everyone has a homeplace— they just need to discover where it is.
Copyright © text and illustrations 2003 Wendy Dudley
eBook Copyright © 2014 Wendy Dudley
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We acknowledge with thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Dudley, Wendy, 1955-
Don't name the ducks, and other truths about life in the country / by Wendy Dudley.
ISBN 1-894856-28-7 (print), eISBN 978-1-92708-382-6
I. Title.
FC3695.B67Z49 2003 971.23'3 C2003-910439-7
F1079.B67D82 2003
While all of the events in this book are true, some of the names of people have been changed to protect their privacy.
Cover and interior design by Articulate Eye
Cover photograph Andrew Wenzel / Masterfile
Cover photograph copyright © 1998 Gary Isaacs/Photonica
Cover background photograph David Berezowski / Great Bear Enterprises
Edited/copyedited by Alex Rettie; proofread by Ann Sullivan
Scans by St. Solo Computer Graphics