BIOGRAPHY
W.F. (Wayne) Carrigan was born and raised in Welland, Ontario. A proud, hardscrabble, industrial city that has produced outstanding leaders in professional sports and politics, world-class athletes, Constitutional lawyers, teachers and artists.
“A city is built on enduring character and
stronger faith. It’s in the soil, in each breath.
It’s in the bone.”
W.F. Carrigan resides in Midland, Ontario, a picturesque and historical city on Georgian Bay. He is the loving father of two daughters who capture his heart every day.
He graduated from Western University majoring in Psychology and has made a successful career as a mental health clinician. More recently, he collaborates with Social Service Agencies in Ontario working with dual diagnosed, developmentally delayed clients.
W.F. Carrigan’s paternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland in the early 1900’s. His father, Frederick, a World War 2 veteran, graduated from the Ontario College of Art post war and built a very successful career culminating as Publisher of the Midland Free Press newspaper.
His maternal grandmother was raised on a farm in the agricultural community of Creemore, Ontario. His mother, Margeurite, was an outstanding student growing up in Welland. She was a full time homemaker whose spirituality and enduring faith was a beacon for her four children.
W.F. Carrigan has enjoyed a lifetime of public service, academics, athletics and creative writing. Travelling Canada, exploring and photographing the far north including the Arctic, celebrating the beauty of our country’s diversity has been a cherished life experience.
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STORYTELLING
Storytelling and its’ importance in worldwide cultures cannot be understated. Storytelling connects us. We hand down knowledge and the lessons learned from one generation to the next. Before the written word, storytelling shaped our existence, explained natural phenomena, taught moral lessons and gave our lives meaning. Storytelling can simply be entertaining, but it often offers insight and inspiration. It is a mechanism to stimulate conversation and shape social change.
I’ve always had a passion for words. My friends and colleagues might say I’m rarely at a loss for words. Transparent and mysterious, mellifluous and uplifting, cruel and disabling, I love the power and responsibility of words. I was captured by storytelling as a child. My father would read
a chapter of a book each night as I lay on the bed and I was transfixed. He was a great storyteller, an actor with a voice that enveloped you. The impact was life-changing. So, I read to my two daughters and the experience forged a lasting bond.
Art, in all its’ forms, reveals the tears, the ashes and the laughter of life. I write to entertain and to share my thoughts and feelings about
LOVE, LOSS and REDEMPTION
From one generation to the next.