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Pauli Pedersen, having published previous magazine and anthology media, is excited to present “River of Dementia: a Memoir.” She and her husband live on Fox Island in Washington State, between the majestic Olympic mountain range on the west and the Cascade range at the foot of 14,000 foot Mount Rainier on the east. Their home on Fox Island is surrounded by Puget Sound and visited by deer under the apple trees, a raccoon on the prowl, or an eagle gliding over nearby Honeymoon Bay. Island residents can sometimes spot a group of visiting sea lions or a pod of killer whales while commuting over the nearby bridge.
Born in Seattle, her 1958 move to Kittitas, a small town in central Washington began a curious family odyssey. The new agricultural setting introduced her to a panoply of rural treasures: a small high school—26 in her class of close friends, square dancing at Denmark Grange Hall, drag racing at the airport, summer parties on the Columbia River, the Ellensburg Rodeo on Labor Day, the splendor of the agricultural basin. A lush verdant valley, wrapped by dry, brown, sage-covered hills, provided a patchwork of alfalfa acreage, cornfields, orchards, fields of grazing livestock, oats, rye, wheat, and potatoes—she worked on a potato digger one summer for college tuition. Her favorite natural gifts of the Kittitas valley were the perfume of fresh-cut hay and the waft of spicy sage after easy rain.
Attending nearby Central Washington College, she graduated with a major in Education, a minor in English, and four years of professional vocal instruction. Her graduation and marriage took her to the small central Washington community of Manson on beautiful Lake Chelan, an apple orchard paradise in north-central Washington. She and her husband taught there for three idyllic years.
Back in Western Washington, she spent the next two decades raising five energetic children while dabbling with substituting in elementary school and professional performance. Children in college, she realized the first wish on her bucket list, travel in Europe, then began the journey to her penultimate goal of writing. Her Dad’s Alzheimer’s playing out in front of her gave her subject matter. A number of years later, Covid-19 shook the world and prompted her to finish River of Dementia.
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