Saturday February 04, 2012
CEO made mental-health work his business
Among friends and acquaintances, Edgar Kaiser Jr. was known for his handwritten Christmas cards.The cards often came with another personal touch: poems, composed by Kaiser himself, often turning on serious themes and always written from the heart.
Author of Pit Pony turned to writing late in life
As a child, Joyce Barkhouse dreamt of becoming a missionary. Instead, she trained as a teacher, nurtured generations of children in the pleasures of reading and writing and became a published author herself in middle age. One of the children she encouraged was her niece Margaret Atwood. ''She was an important early support to me in my writing. She took it seriously,'' Atwood said in a telephone interview, recalling that she had shown her aunt ''rather horrible poems'' as an adolescent.