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Jan & Feb Online Gatherings: Solar & Lunar Astro-Weather Forecasts for 2024

Eileen "ike" West, Author03rd November 2023

Solar Year Outlook Sunday, 7 January 2024                                              1-4p CST US Lunar Year Perspective Sunday, 4 February 2024                                            1-4p CST US What a year ahead! The excitement of BIG changes is like a fever
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ABOUT THAT … TITLE, WHISTLER OF PETTY CRIMES

Eileen "ike" West, Author07th September 2023

Years ago, I learn from my web designer son, an important marketing strategy regarding book titles and product names. It’s this: make certain the first word of any title/name begins with the letter ‘A’. This
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Whistler Gets Another Two Thumbs Up

Eileen "ike" West, Author30th July 2023

Here's yet ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL REVIEW for Whistler of Petty Crimes This one by Rae Longest - Originally posted on the website blog page of LITERACY & ME, June11, 2023...I thoroughly enjoyed this little volume, and...
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Two Thumbs Up For Whistler, AGAIN!

Eileen "ike" West, Author17th July 2023

Book Reviewer Angel says: “Whistler of Petty Crimes is more than poetry...it's a reflective journey that is easy to follow and love. I really enjoy when a poetry collection intertwines the way this one, Whistler...
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Wisdom Keepers Speak

Eileen "ike" West, Author30th June 2023

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.                                      ― Tom Robbins Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.                          
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An Author of Substance

Eileen "ike" West, Author15th June 2023

How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to read a book of mine. Yet that world is exactly where Whistler of Petty Crimes
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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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