You can surf my site, starting with this link, or the links to the right, and see where they lead,
or you can use an IMAGE MAP of the site to pick and choose where you want to go.

An IMAGE MAP is a picture or a graphic with sections of it identified, behind the scene, to function as links so that when you "click" on different parts of the image you are taken to new pages on the site. The graphic at the top of this page, TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR IMAGINATION, is an image map. If you "click on the little pointing hand it will link you to another page.

 http://www.granpawayne.com   is not a commercial site even though it has the [ .com ] ending. I chose granpawayne.com for this site as a literary device, making the address easier to remember. It is a personal site that I am creating for myself, containing my writing, my digital graphics, and material for the courses that I teach in humanities, religion, and philosophy.

I use granpawayne as my web name. That'd be the name I go by for my web writing.
This is web literature, or web lit, or e-lit, and I am e-literate, and I am creating e-literature.
Anyway I haven't quit my day job.

Speaking of my day job, I work at a junior college called John Abbott College, after a former prime minister of Canada.
You can check out the college's web site if you want.
It is a junior college up in Québec.

For you USA-ers, that's a province in Canada, north of New England.
Yes, that's the province that is trying to make up it's mind whether or not it wants to be a separate country.
And here is a small graphical opinion piece on that issue.

I've been teaching for thirty two years, with almost twenty seven at John Abbott. The courses I presently teach are in philosophy, humanities, and religious studies. You can find more info about the courses on the site.

I am a teaching philosopher not an academic one. This flows out of my philosophical approach to my personal life and thus to my work as a teacher. At the college, there is little or no time set aside for academic research, though there is some time available, if the request is approved, for pedagogical study and research.

This personal, rather than academic, approach to philosophy began during my life as a monk and a seminarian (preparing to be a priest), back in the early sixties. You can read about it in my unpublished manuscript linked below.
It contains a series of sketches written in my early twenties. They were supposed to turn into a book entitled, "The Young Dead." A book about the fear of ending up stuck in the rat race.

Sketches for a Manuscript

I am also very involved in exploring the creative and intuitive with the plastic arts as well. Drawing, works on paper with oil pastels, and carvings in wood and stone are among my interests. Now, I am working with the computer.