Dan Lukiv

Entitled Our Television is Weird, this work of fiction first appeared in The Canadian Children's Annual (1983). Under the same title, as a book for children: First Edition: HMS Press (London, ON), 1996; a book on disk. Entitled "She's Been so Grumpy": Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. An excerpt "Drat " I said, peering out the window. I breathed on the glass and fogged it up. I wiped a circle, drawing a peep hole, and spied a soggy world. "The ground is wet, the air is cold, and I'm stuck inside," I complained. "Morris," called my mother. I heard her rattling dishes in the kitchen. "Clean up those pots and pans." "She's been so grumpy," I thought. "Ever since she brought Tommy, my new brother, home from the hospital, she's baggy-eyed, bad-tempered, and boring. Who needs a mother who never takes me to the zoo? Either she's nursing Tommy, cuddling him, or she's cooking or cleaning. Tonight she's cooking shepherd's pie. I hate shepherd's pie And I'm getting sick of my brother's endless crying. His mouth ought to be corked." The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).

Previously published as Getting English Class Started (Academic Exchange Extra Greeley, CO (University of Northern Colorado)], 2010, Final Issue). An excerpt In my school, McNaughton Education Centre (Quesnel, BC), I teach English, English Literature, Communications, and Creative Writing to secondary alternate high school students, many of whom abhor reading and writing. Often I have asked students, "Do you mean you have never read a book? Not ever?" A typical response: "I've never read a book. I hate reading." My starting off class with their reading Dickens' David Copperfield won't work. I don't think their reading Joyce's Finnegans Wake will work either. That said (I feel a little laugh coming on), I remind myself of a song that my daughters sang in kindergarten: It begins with "inch by inch, row by row, I'm gonna make this garden grow." One summer (1988), as my wife and I and our three girls (aged 5, 8, and 11; we have four daughters now, all adults, I think) headed south to Disneyland, in our deluxe Hyundai Pony, those girls, bouncing their legs, sang that song from the back seat, adding delightful harmonics to the underpowered drone of the 1600cc Mitsubishi motor. In a literary sense, each class, I apply the words of their catchy song by giving each student a haiku or senryu printed on a little, non-intimidating sheet of paper. I ask students to write any comment on the front or back of the sheet: "Any memory, any image, anything your imagination conjures up, anything, any criticism, any comment about what you like about the poem-anything. No comment can be wrong."... The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Previously published as English Literature 12: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century, 18th Century and Romantic, Victorian and 20th Century (McNaughton Education Centre, Quesnel, BC], 2010). Direction for Teachers This course offers English teachers a simple, methodical teaching process. The assignments and concepts can be teacher-delivered through the lecture-format. But a simpler teaching method also exits. Teachers could e-mail (see the next paragraph for directions) the course to students, encourage them to get started, and answer questions as they arise-answer them either personally/individually or through group-discussion. Teachers who wish to provide students with an e-copy of my English Literature course may receive it from me, in a docx file, through e-mail. Once received, teachers could e-mail the course to their students. I welcome students to open the file through their personal e-mail accounts and to save it; then they're free to complete assignments at their computers, tablets, or laptops, by typing their responses in the docx file. After that, they simply show their work to their teachers, or print the work out page by page, for their teachers to read. The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Previously published as Racism-Socio-Emotional Discussion Groups (McNaughton Centre Quesnel, BC], 2011). Introduction This program, through class discussions, explores unhumanistic forces of racism at the students' experiential level, encouraging them to empathize with and show compassion to others. Resources for discussions: 1. Students' opinions and experiences; 2. Teacher's knowledge of problems racism causes; and 3. Videos that feature unlikely friendships in the animal world (as found on youtube video-streams). For each of 20 weeks, students view one of 20 youtube video-streams, and construct a web that they daily add information to, based on the discussion topic of the week. Truths implied by the video-streams: Racism is both illogical and unhumanistic. The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: Entitled June, this collection appeared in One More Year to Remember, serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO University of Northern Colorado]), 2006, 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt asparaguspoints upwards beside thebee hives The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt the driftwood doesnot seem to mind what direc-tion it is pointing The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Introduction "The disciple whom Jesus loved," John, the last person to write a scriptural account of Christ's life and preaching and miracles (about 98 CE), repeats little of what we find in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. One might ask, why did he write this titular work? John 20:31, provides an answer: "These words] have been written down so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God." This Bible book carries great weight in many other ways, too. Consider, for starters, lessons in love (John 21:15), loyalty (21:20b), kindness (2:10, 11), and courage (2:15). Consider, too, as a work "inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16), John helps us "discern thoughts and intentions" (Hebrews 3:14)-even the sense, the state of our hearts. An excerpt, based on chapter 16 of John "Did a stork bring meTo be your little boy?" Bobby askedAs his mother sprinkled diced Tomatoes on his taco(That had a crunchy shell, The way he especially liked it ). "A stork?" his father said, his wifeLooking over at him, smirking."Yes," Bobby said, joyfully munching On his Mexican wonder."A girl at kindergarten told me todayThat a stork brought her home To her mummy and daddy."His mother had not stopped smirking."Well, Papa?" she said. "What do You have to say about that?"Everybody stopped eating toListen to what Papa had to say. The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: Entitled May, this collection appeared in One More Year to Remember, serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO University of Northern Colorado]), 2006, 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt dande-lions in the cold windshiver The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt ducks disappear in-to the night-lake shimmeringorange and silver The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: Entitled April, this collection appeared in One More Year to Remember, serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO University of Northern Colorado]), 2006, 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt week-old lil-ies in a crystal vase-droopy stars The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt in the field, purple and red wildflowers, and a bear The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: Entitled February, this collection appeared in One More Year to Remember, serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO University of Northern Colorado]), 2006, 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt white fog be-tween snowy spruce-windstings my face The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt big cruise shipindows throw sun glareinto our faces The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: Entitled January, this collection appeared in One More Year to Remember, serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO University of Northern Colorado]), 2006, 2007. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt a tugboat push-es upriver. a man ondeck waves The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Published previously as a squirrel bolts (LukivPress (Quesnel, BC], 2011). An excerpt he rarely wentoutside, but today he leftin a body bag The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Previously published as the smell of clover (LukivPress Quesnel, BC], 2013). An excerpt the smell of cloverfills hot wind that makestall trees sway The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt trees a-mong sagebrush, blackened bydrought The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt moonlightfilling ripples in the lake-electrum The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

First Edition (entitled high in a tree): LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2011. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. An excerpt our cat, drinking from thetoilet The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021. Previously published as blackbirds land (LukivPress Sardis, BC], 2015). An excerpt a blue jayswoops from the poplar-slowlightning The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.