About
Jeannette Montgomery is the OWS writer, reader and listener. She’s worked in the automotive world, private post-secondary, finance - even the public sector. Computer assembly? Yep. Waitressing? You bet. Jeannette even sold shoes. Comfortable, sensible shoes.
Does this mean Jeannette can fit you with comfortable, sensible footwear? Yes. But that’s not important right now. This variety of experience means that Jeannette not only knows how people speak; she also knows how they listen.
Jeannette was raised in rural Ontario. Childhood summers were spent on the water or camping with family friends, always with people playing music and singing songs. She’s just now learning to play guitar, but don’t ask her to sing.
In 1997, Jeannette moved to Vancouver where she met a fella. They got hitched by the tidal flats along Spanish Banks on a sunny September day. After spending a decade in the city, Jeannette and her fella moved to Oliver, British Columbia in the summer of 2007. They have a small house and enormous garage.
But the niftiest thing (aside from finding that fella and getting hitched on the beach) happened on October 4th, 2008. Jeannette graduated from Simon Fraser University; in the audience, sitting beside her fella were her parents - watching as she crossed that stage. The sun shone on that day, too.
