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  David Garlick - The Principal Chronicles
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David S. Garlick
Author, Storyteller

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February 2023

Dear Reader,
Welcome you to my website. Here you'll find information about my book, links to my social media sites, my blog, as well as an easy way to contact me with any questions or comments you might have.  I'm still pretty new to this, and bound to experience growing pains, so please, be patient and kind...which I asked of my students of each other for thirty-three years.
Cheers,

Dave

About the Author

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David Garlick is a retired educator who spent fourteen years of his thirty-three year career as a high school principal. His long-suffering wife has no idea what he does to cause the incidents he writes about that always seem to happen to him, but he must do 'something.' She's been saying this for more than thirty-two years. They live together in Windsor, Ontario.

He has been denied entry into the National Curmudgeon Club, because he always gives the neighbour kids' balls back when they're kicked over his fence. 
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About the Book

The Principal Chronicles

The Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man’s life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction—or, to be precise, of semi-autobiographical, pseudo-non-fictional memoir—have been refined by many years of telling and re-telling to David Garlick’s friends, family and, especially, to fellow educators.

Some stories, such as “You’ve Got to Eat a Pound of Dirt Before You Die” depict childhood and teenage hijinks. Others, such as “Elvis Presley and My Second Teaching Report,” deal with Garlick’s years in the classroom. Many stories, bearing such salient titles as “I Hate High School Swimming Pools” and “Sometimes—in Fact, Almost Always—They Grow Up,” detail his years as a high school vice-principal and principal. Garlick spins lively, engaging tales about the funny situations in which he has so often found himself, from his earliest years all the way to retirement and beyond. By turns candid, poignant, insightful, and surprising, and always gently humorous, these stories invite readers to laugh about humanity’s quirks and appreciate the many large and small ways that people show each other kindness every day.

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"This book captures life in our schools perfectly, filled with love and absurdity. A great read!" —Dr. Mary Jean Gallagher
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