RON A. WEST – AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

When Ron was a lad delivering newspapers and magazines in his birth city of Welland, Ontario, Canada, his route took him daily past the city library. It became a favorite stop for him and he never left without borrowing another book. He was soon reading topics above his grade level and discussing them with a supportive teacher. Ron never lost that excitement that came from a good story. At 13, he was awarded an I.O.D.E  bursary for a tie of the highest graduating mark in grade 8, (Middle School).

Through jobs during school years of unloading lumber from a rail road box cars, and selling shoes he was usually in a world of older people and their stories. Ron’s working life was eclectic. Ron has worked in such jobs as, Steelworker, Machinist, Human Resources, Health and Safety.

A Past President of a service club, The Welland Kinsmen, that raised funds to build a school for ‘developmental disabled students’, and a member of several N.GA., like the Society of Safety Engineers. Ron retired early and then operated a successful Employers Advocacy Consulting business, which entailed writing case arguments to government agencies for employers.

Ron had always dabbled in writing anecdotal short stories and had written dozens of poems, many of which were whimsy. Flirting with writing a book, he’d never found ‘the’ story.

One morning at breakfast he mentioned to his wife a Southern Belle, that he’d had a dream about their grandson finding a young dragon in a dungeon cell. Her response was the three words too seldom exchanged by older married couple. “Write it down.”

And now Ron has.