Hello, and welcome to my Home Page


My name is Anna Magdalena Hefele aka coyote_jo or just plain Jo.

I live in the Province of Alberta the home of The Canadian Rocky Mountains.

I was born in Quebec and moved to Alberta in 1968 and have never regretted it.



I rode the Super Continental for 2-1/2 days with my children and enjoyed every minute of it. I still have the Canadian National Railways tickets. At that time the fare was inexpensive. Now it is cheaper to fly. However, I must admit to enjoying the romantics of a long train ride.

I am now 59 yrs old, mother of 4, which I raised pretty well on my own. I was not the greatest mother, but I did what I had to with what I had available to me at the time. I was a stay-at-home mother until my youngest child was admitted into school.

I had lost and/or forgotten any skills I had. I had spent so many years with children and other mothers, I couldn't even speak the language of the outside world any more.

I was going out into the world. I applied for a job at the biggest department store in the city. WOW, I got the job as a part time cashier. Perfect, I could start work at a time which would allow me to see all my children off to school and I could be home by the time they got home.

I worked in the lingerie department and I loved it. Handling all those fine and beautiful items was a pleasure and a treat. Flannelette and cotton had been my style for so long that I had long forgotten what it was like to wear something so delicate and luscious.

I worked there for 2-1/2 yrs, then decided to go back to school. I started with Accounting 10, 20, 30. The subject hadn't changed that much, but my brain needed refreshing. I finished the 3 yrs of Accounting in 3 months. Then the real education and fun began .. University. I signed up for everything available in the Arts and Literature Dept. I was in my glory now. Now I could speak Modern English, Old English, French, Latin and Greek came back to me as though I had never left school. The door to my brain was open and I was absorbing all I could and getting rid of a lot of unnecessary garbage at the same time. This was great. I loved it.

I spent the next 20 yrs working for the Government. I loved that job so much, I would have paid them to let me work there. But then I got sick and was forced to leave. So now I am disabled with a lot of time, knowledge and experience on my hands. And I plan on spending a lot of time on the internet and building my website.

In my Home Page, I will show you some pictures of Parks, Lakes and Mountains in Alberta. I will introduce you to the members of my family and our family history.

Links are available to great places and people, URL'S, my poetry and poetry that I really love that were written by my friends, also short true stories that I have asked my friends to write.

I hope you enjoy your visit to my Home Page and if there is something special you would like to submit please do get in touch with me. Or just drop me a line to say "Hello", it would be so nice to hear from you.


Anna Hefele


Alberta Canada



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