Libby Simon’s work has appeared in Homemaker’s magazine, Canadian Living Online, the Winnipeg Free Press and anthologies in the U.S., and in readings on CBC Radio. She lives in Winnipeg. Libby Simon is also the author of a violence prevention kit for young children, Don’t Fight, It’s Not Right (#9028), available through the Manitoba Text Book Bureau.
This photo was taken in Winnipeg’s North End at St. John’s Park on Main Street, in 1940 or so. I was about five years old and the only girl in the family. An accident, my parents told me. A happy accident.
