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Author Interview: Shannon Page
Author Interview: Shannon Page Interviewed by Phyllis Irene Radford Shannon Page is Book View Café’s newest member. Her collection of short fiction, Eastlick and Other Stories, marks her debut with...
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WWW Wednesday 1-22-14
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you...
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In the Pacific Northwest? Come Hear BVC Members Shannon Page & Mark Ferrari...
Book View Cafe members Shannon Page and Mark J. Ferrari, along with Annie Bellet, will be reading this week and next for the SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series. Thursday, September 3, come see them...
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In Praise of a Winter’s Walk
Just me, some confused deer, and thoughts of hope I just got back from my second walk of the day, in the pouring rain. A mile and a half up and down our muddy, one-lane rural road. As I stepped out of...
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Beach Walking
We live on an island–Orcas Island, in the San Juans, in farthest western Washington State–and there are lots of lovely woods here. I’ve written before about how much I love walking in the woods, how I...
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Island Life: Trying to Get Shot (in the Arm)
Silly me. Last year, when the pandemic hit, we dutifully canceled travel and took precautions and hunkered down. We washed our hands, and bought and wore masks, and learned how to make crumpets and...
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Island Life: When It Snows, It SNOWS
I love snow! So fluffy and pretty, so magical, so peaceful, so…inconvenient. Well, not usually. Usually we’re pretty self-sufficient out here. You have to be, to want to live on an island with only an...
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Island Life: The Path to Good Health Never Did Run Smoothly
On the evening of December 30, 2020, I was sitting in the living room with my husband and mother-in-law. We were playing a board game after an enjoyable, not over-large, dinner when I began to feel...
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Island Life: Spring Is Coming
It isn’t literally true that now that spring is making its presence known, my husband has left me for the garden–it just seems that way sometimes. Actually, I jest: I thoroughly approve of his efforts...
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Island Life: There and Back Again
Photo by Rob Hummel (Adobe stock, used with permission) Now that my household are all past our second shots, we are beginning to step, very slowly and carefully, back into something resembling normal...
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Island Life: I Know We Are All Sick Of Zoom But Also It’s Actually Kind Of Great
Photo by Elena Kuchko on Unsplash Before we moved to Orcas Island, we lived in Portland, Oregon. Portland is famous (and rightfully so) for many things–Portlandia, roses, coffee, bicycles, beer,...
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Island Life: Here Comes the Wider World
Oh look, another glossy magazine article about lovely Orcas Island! You’d think the island would be used to this sort of thing by now, but this innocuous, perfectly decent little article has...
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Island Life: On Not Acquiring Ducks
Right outside the front door of our house–well, across a little stretch of lawn, fifteen or twenty feet maybe–we have a pond. It was one of the many things we fell in love with when we first saw the...
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Island Life: Stepping Back into the Social Whirl
Now that we’re fully vaccinated, we’ve been slowly easing our toes back into the stream of Socializing With Other People. It’s been weird! And great! And weird! Last Friday night, we had a couple over...
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Island Life: The Great Propane Race
Our back garden path, currently. Nine percent. I just checked the level on our propane tank, and it’s down to nine percent. Just a few days ago, when I started this essay, it was eleven percent. Eek!...
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Island Life: Thistles and Nettles and Vines, Oh My
We have a deer fence on our property, which encloses the house, the front lawn and garden (and part of the pond), the back lawn and garden, and what I like to call the “back forty.” The back forty is...
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Island Life: Bringing Things Home
One of the first things I remember from visiting Grandma Cleta’s house was the beautiful curio cabinet in her living room, filled with precious mementos from her and Grandpa Larry’s travels. Of...
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Island Life: Visiting an Even More Remote Island
That’s our island, Orcas Island, in the distance there–those middle lumps. I took this photo from Cypress Island, last week. We were invited to Cypress by relatives who have a cabin there, and we went...
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Island Life: Oprah Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
West Beach at sunset. Not Oprah’s place. Well, technically, Oprah never lived here; but she did buy a pretty nice house on the island three years ago. It was big news at the time, and we islanders...
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Island Life: Oh This Serene Rural Paradise
Photo by jaimy van kessel on Unsplash It was a strange sound, an animal sound. Perhaps even an animal-in-distress sound? It wasn’t a bird, we thought, probably, though it was a little...
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