The latest contribution to the Writers Open House is the fifth this year from talented author and loyal supporter of this blog, Ronald Mackay.
You can read Ronald's story What's in a job? here.
You can read Ronald's story What's in a job? here.
Ronald Mackay
During summer, Christmas, and Easter vacations from university in the ’60s, Ronald Mackay never failed to find interesting and well-paying jobs. During two Easter vacations, he was a porter at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur auctions in the City of London. He enjoyed the work at Beaver House so much, that he responded to a later invitation to work intensively for 30 days with their expert skin graders to help classify a large shipment of Afghanistan lamb skins.
Ronald enjoys contributing to Fred’s Blog. He is the author of “The Kilt Behind the Curtain”, “Fortunate Isle, a Memoir of Tenerife” and “Windows On My Worlds”. In Spanish, he has published “A Tenerife con Cariño” and is completing a second book of stories from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and Tenerife. Ronald and Viviana, his Peruvian wife, use Spanish as their home language.
During summer, Christmas, and Easter vacations from university in the ’60s, Ronald Mackay never failed to find interesting and well-paying jobs. During two Easter vacations, he was a porter at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur auctions in the City of London. He enjoyed the work at Beaver House so much, that he responded to a later invitation to work intensively for 30 days with their expert skin graders to help classify a large shipment of Afghanistan lamb skins.
Ronald enjoys contributing to Fred’s Blog. He is the author of “The Kilt Behind the Curtain”, “Fortunate Isle, a Memoir of Tenerife” and “Windows On My Worlds”. In Spanish, he has published “A Tenerife con Cariño” and is completing a second book of stories from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and Tenerife. Ronald and Viviana, his Peruvian wife, use Spanish as their home language.
Viviana and Ronald, Voorburg, June 2025
