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Month: April 2023

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I Look Forward to…Writing

Eileen "ike" West, Author21st April 2023

This past summer, in Taos, New Mexico, I spent six weeks nestled inside adobe walls. The walls of the home were thick red mud, caked by man and baked by sun. The garden and patio...
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I Look Forward to…Reading

Eileen "ike" West, Author20th April 2023

Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but rather a small independent bookshop owned by the Ojibway author, Louise Erdrich. In keeping with
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I Look Forward to…Teaching

Eileen "ike" West, Author19th April 2023

A post-covid phenomenon that seems to linger is that our events-horizons have shortened. That’s just a fancy way of saying most of us are not planning far in advance, at least not in the way
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Mission Not Impossible

Eileen "ike" West, Author14th April 2023

All marketing wizards in the queendom of Authorland want me to spell out my mission. I suppose in common vernacular it means something like this: “Hey Bubbette! Why are you writing?” According to the wise
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A Birthday Book

Eileen "ike" West, Author05th April 2023

My birth was rocky back in 1949. For me, life began with a weak pulse. Premature almost a full month, I spent weeks fighting my way past the incubator cage and into the world. Every
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