Author Archive: Raven West
My Hometown of Ellenville, New York is NOT just “another small town”
Ellenville, New York is the ONLY town with the name of Ellenville! Watch the recently recorded You Tube video by residents of my hometown who submitted it to the HGTV Home Town contest. Then read my story: Ellenville Always, it’s NOT just another Small Town Feel free to share!
The Decade in Review 2010-2020
Since 1968 I’ve been filling pages of a yearly diary. These books came from an insurance company in my home town of Ellenville, NY which is now owned by a high school friend of mine. Every New Year’s Eve for 42 years after, I’d perform a “retirement ritual” where I would lay out all the …
Author Raven West 
Let’s All Do a “Redo” of Our 2020 Resolutions!
Raven West ♦ January 28, 2020 ♦ Leave a comment
Several blogs ago, I wrote that I was making a New Year’s resolution to write this blog every Monday. Well, for those of you following my prose, you know that that resolution never quite made it past the first week. (I could have written the above cartoon caption, it’s so true!) So, let’s talk about …
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