Meet Maria Kordas-Fraser. Maria was born on Point Pelee, just south-east of Leamington, Ontario; her parents being share-croppers, arrived in Canada as DPs after WWII. Eleven days after her birth, her mother brought her to the lakeshore farm on the hill, west of Port Granby, which her father had just bought, and she grew up on this farm. After studying at U of T and Teachers’ College she taught elementary school and was a school librarian until she discovered the joys of teaching Adults at Durham College. She is grateful for the year she got to teach International Students at Niagara College. Before she retired, she took a year to study Spiritual Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction using it primarily to do her own therapy work, as well as understand others better. She enjoys writing short stories, facilitating Women’s Circles, exploring nature spirituality, bird-watching and practising compassion for animals. She has self-published a family history and is currently working on a memoir about the Port Granby Community where she grew up.