by Carol Jane Morrison | May 14, 2024 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews, The Biblio File
“To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regrets ” by Jedediah Jenkins I was at Basecamp Books in Roslyn, where Ed and I went for Sunday breakfast, when I saw this book and read the raves by Cheryl...
by Carol Jane Morrison | May 14, 2024 | Essays, The Biblio File
The last couple of months have been tough, as Ed and I are both dealing with illnesses and are sick and tired of being sick and tired. It’s taken some doings to stay on track and not get whacked out scared nor awash in self-pity as we navigate the infuriatingly slow...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 28, 2024 | Essays, The Biblio File
Wait for the Wagon One of my most vivid memories is when I was six, and Miss Wait, my first-grade teacher, stood at the front of our class in her prim, beige shirtwaist dress and smooth, dark hair and told us to write our names on the lined notebook paper on our...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 28, 2024 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews, The Biblio File
“Sun House” by David James Duncan The joke at our house is that Ed wants to be avid fly fisher David James Duncan, and I want to marry magnificent writer David James Duncan, so it all works out. We loved THE RIVER WHY and THE BROTHERS K and MY STORY AS...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Nov 9, 2023 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews, The Biblio File
“THE CREATIVE ACT: A Way of Being” by Rick Rubin I was in Darvill’s Bookstore on Orcas Island when I was struck by the cover of THE CREATIVE ACT: A Way of Being—plain light grey with a darker grey circle on it. When I researched it on my phone, I learned...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Nov 9, 2023 | Essays, The Biblio File
Upping My AQ When Ed and I first saw the house we’d eventually buy, a two-story grey house smack dab on the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, I looked over the back fence, where the river gleamed as it rushed by, framed by cedars, Douglas firs, cottonwoods, alders,...
