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West Vancouver Stories: 2024 contains the stories of 18 ordinary people living in extraordinary times. They met in the West Vancouver Memorial Library, where they shared their stories of resilience, compassion, and hope. A true collaboration between community members and organisations, this book documents what it means to be alive today. "With the pandemic now in the rear-view mirror, this is the time to strengthen our bonds of friendship, community, and reconnect with each other. What we have learned is that nothing can defeat the human spirit. We can move forward with a renewed sense of hope, optimism, and kindness." Mark Sager, Mayor of West Vancouver Contributing writers: Anne Baird, Antonio Ocana, Brenda Morrison, Elizabeth Wooding, Elke Babicki, Evelyn (Stephens) Dawson, Inga Pedersen McLaughlin, Jennifer Lutes, John Weston, Julie Flynn, Karen Hoffman, Kim Clarke, L. Noël, Lindy Hughes Pfeil, Melissa Baker, Nancy Henderson, Trish Leslie, Wendy Wilkins Winslow Thank you to the West Vancouver Foundation for partially funding this book, and to West Vancouver Memorial Library for providing a welcoming space for our writing sessions. Gratitude to the Coast Salish peoples on whose traditional territories we live, work and write. For additional information about the book and its writers, please visit www.westvanstories.com.

"Wow. What a wild ride! It Never Stays in Vegas is a whip-smart, rip-snorting funny journey that is twisted, hilarious, and serious. Lindy Hughes unfailingly manages to weave the heavy with the light. Outrageous and important." Carol Leonard, author of Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart: A Midwife's Saga and The Circle of Life: Thirteen Archetypes for Every WomanWhen forty-two-year-old Lucy receives a phone call from an old flame out of the blue, the timing could not be worse...or more perfect. Happily married for eighteen years and a mother of three teenagers, Lucy is nevertheless grappling with a growing dissatisfaction with her life. It's not a bad one by any means, but it's not exactly what she pictured for herself twenty years ago. Grasping for something-anything!-to reconnect her with the daring girl of her past, Lucy impulsively agrees to meet Matthew in Las Vegas. After all, he was her first true love, her first lover, and the father (unbeknownst to him) of her first child. Their rendezvous turns out to be a complicated one, of course, and Lucy finds herself face-to-face with not one, but two ghosts from her past. It Never Stays in Vegas is an irreverently humorous and poignant portrait of one woman's midlife crisis, a novel of rediscovery, love, and hope.

2022 Eyelands Book Awards WINNER Published Memoir2020 Whistler Independent Book Awards SHORTLIST 2020 SanFrancisco Book Festival RUNNER-UP Biography/Autobiography2020 Book Excellence Award Finalist Inspirational>#1 ON 4 AMAZON BESTSELLER LISTS! For anyone who has felt, even for a moment, the 'missingness' of an unlived life and wondered what to do about it. >In the midst of a hot flush, Lindy remembers her destiny (bestowed on her by Father Ignatius at Catholic school when she was fifteen years old) to save the world. So, on her fifty-first birthday, she tells her husband that she can no longer be married. She needs to find her Big Life, the one that doesn't include a picket-fence house in the suburbs with a minivan in the driveway. Since her husband is, above all, a practical man, he suggests that she go for a walk to think about things before making any final decisions. Forgetting that she doesn't like walking, Lindy heads to Northern Spain with her purple backpack, Petunia. With blistered toes and a swollen ankle, she stomps along the sacred soil of the Camino de Santiago in search of God (if he exists), forgiveness (if that is possible), and herself (whomever the hell that is). With no guidebook and no sense of direction, she gets lost. Very lost. In that lostness, she is forced to stare the serpent in the eye, have it out with Jesus, and face her naked truth. A cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Eat, Pray, Love, this is the audaciously honest, irreverent memoir of one woman's pilgrimage to the Ends of the Earth.

Written during the COVID-19 pandemic by 23 'ordinary' West Vancouver citizens, these stories celebrate the courage, kindness and resilience of the human spirit. West Vancouver Stories: The Pandemic Project is a celebration of hope and resilience. It ensures that our stories will never be lost. "The pandemic of 20/21 has impacted us all in ways none of us could have imagined. While we are united in fighting this common enemy, how each of us experiences it is unique. And I believe that to develop empathy as a society, we need to hear the stories of others. That's why the West Vancouver Stories initiative is so important. It's an opportunity for a diverse and courageous cross-section of our community to share compelling and intimate reflections on life during this extraordinary time; and for the rest of us to understand and appreciate those insights." Mary-Ann Booth, Mayor of West Vancouver Contributing writers: >Deep gratitude to the West Vancouver Foundation for funding this project and to the Coast Salish peoples on whose unceded traditional territories we live, work and write.For additional information about the book and its writers, please visit www.westvanstories.com.