Alix Hawley

Also on Spotify, audio.com/alixhawley, Internet Archive, etc. I don’t post much these days but am very pleased to share.

A graphic of two fingerprints with the show title “Two Lives: Okanagan History—A Limited Series”

I’m excited to present a limited podcast series I’ve been working on in partnership with the Okanagan Historical Society this year. Each episode (surprise!) looks at two lives, one settler and one Syilx or Métis, in the Okanagan area in the 1800s.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-lives/id1837498586

The cosmic view tonight in BC over Syilx territory.

The plot thickens

Library patron of the week, who has seen some things.

Library patron of the week: the kid at storytime pensively repeating each book title over and over.

Library patron of the week: the kid upset that we “change the people” at the desk.

Library patron of the week: kids everywhere

Library patron of the week: the woman who mistakenly checked out a Spanish translation of Prince Harry’s book, then tried to learn Spanish.

A sign with a picture of a snapped tree falling onto a car which reads: CAUTION -Dead trees are rotting - Wings make trees unstable -Trees are falling -Look up; look around - Watch where you park -Watch where you walk

I love this Radiohead song

She is the short story empress.

Library patron of the week: the parent telling their kid that Where’s Waldo and Wenda will never get married because “they’re just good friends, and that’s all.”

Library patron of the week: the kid planning to be a princess banana for Hallowe’en, as she casually told us.

Here’s our shortlist.

Pleased, even!

Please to be on this jury! Shortlist coming this week.

Excellent time at Vancouver Writers Fest event with Madeleine Thien and Zadie Smith. Like eavesdropping on a chat between two greats.

Library patron of the week: the child who drew us a portrait of Georgeous Washington.

Library patron of the week: the kid who suggested the staff wear each other’s “scary” clothes for Hallowe’en.

Opinion: Fleeing the fires in Kelowna was a horror movie come to life An area still haunted by wildfires that wreaked havoc two decades ago grapples with fresh destruction and the terror of not knowing what comes next

I wrote this for @globeandmail.bsky.social about the past week on fire in Kelowna.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Library patron of the week, bonus everything-is-on-fire edition:
the fella who asked why I’m “so, so pale,” then said, “I know! It’s because you’re Irish.”
(Reader, I am not Irish.)

Library patron of the week: the kid who requested “Gangnam Style” at storytime.

Library patron of the week: the kid belting out “Rah Rah Rasputin” in the picture book section.