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Midge Raymond

Pacific Northwest

Writer at Freelance

Author of FLOREANA, MY LAST CONTINENT, and FORGETTING ENGLISH & co-author, with John Yunker, of DEVILS ISLAND.

Articles

  • 5 days ago | ashland.news | Midge Raymond

    By Midge Raymond Visitors to this year’s 3rd annual VegFest at Tikkun Olam Farm Sanctuary (TOFS) in Phoenix will have the opportunity to meet new sanctuary residents as well as new local business owners from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., on Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 460 Hartley Road. Admission, parking and all activities for kids and adults are free. TOFS is a 501(c)(3) organization in Phoenix, Oregon, that rescues abused, abandoned, neglected and unwanted farm animals, providing them with a forever home.

  • 1 month ago | ashland.news | Midge Raymond

    By Midge RaymondOver the decade I was a shelter volunteer, I could always tell the stray cats from the orphaned ones as soon as I walked into the cat rooms. The strays weren’t thrilled to be in kennels, of course, but they were warm and fed, and life was a bit better than being out on the streets. On the other hand, the cats whose humans had passed away or had moved — to hospice or assisted living or out of the area — were totally shut down.

  • 2 months ago | ashland.news | Midge Raymond

    By Midge RaymondIt’s 7:30 a.m. on a foggy, 32-degree February Friday, and the FOTAS Community Spay & Neuter Clinic at 3265 Biddle Road in Medford is checking in cats for the day’s surgeries. Today’s felines are coming in from FOTAS (Friends of the Animals) foster families as well as clients of Rogue Valley Street Dogs. Just before 8 a.m., two cats without appointments are dropped off, and the staff tells their owner they will try to get them fixed today.

  • Feb 12, 2025 | ashland.news | Midge Raymond

    By Midge RaymondUnlike dogs, cats are not travel friendly. Despite the abundance of social media posts of cats in cars, on boats or in backpacks, most cats prefer nothing more than to stay in their own environment even when you’re not there. And while some dogs enjoy going to a boarding facility where they have play groups and lots of social time, boarding for cats usually means they spend your vacation in a kennel.

  • Jan 31, 2025 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Midge Raymond

    In 1929 Berlin, Dore Strauch is unhappy with her life—ill with multiple sclerosis, married to an older man she doesn’t love, and straddled with the domesticity of a hausfrau. She falls in love with her physician, Dr. Friedrich Ritter, and they leave the civilized world for Floreana, an isolated and uninhabited island of the Galápagos. Friedrich persuades Dore that she can heal herself by determination alone.

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Midge Raymond
Midge Raymond @MidgeRaymond
16 Mar 25

RT @AshlandORNews: Catty Corner: Get a glimpse behind the scenes on surgery day at the community’s newest spay/neuter clinic! Friends of th…

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9 Feb 25

RT @JCLS_tweets: A true story, retold. Floreana by Midge Raymond is our weekend read: https://t.co/N0YQzmm3SI #FridayReads 📖 https://t.co/b…

Midge Raymond
Midge Raymond @MidgeRaymond
9 Feb 25

Moving over to Blue Sky! I hope you'll join me there: https://t.co/QbhamPPNPJ