James O. Weeks taught English in secondary schools and community college for forty years. He published articles in professional journals and short genre fiction (Wilderness Tales) while teaching young adults about writing. One of his short stories appears in Moose House's second collection of short fiction, "Blink and You'll Miss It"; and Moose House published his first novel, "Nodding's People".Beyond the classroom, Jim worked as a swimming pool manager, camp counsellor, and liquor store clerk, and for twelve years was a driver and pump operator for a volunteer fire department.Jim and his wife (a fifth-generation Nova Scotian) live in Lunenburg.