Author Archive: Raven West
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 …
His Name is Earl
According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, there are approximately 50,000 homeless people in and around Los Angeles living on streets, parks and freeway underpasses. This is a story about just one. He name is Earl. About fifteen years ago when I lived in Thousand Oaks I was working as the store manager for …
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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