Comox Valley Collective 2023 Summer
When I phone Dave Hall to chat about his Comox Valley-based camera repair business, we struggle through a minute or two of trying to communicate over a bad cell connection […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Meredith Rose

THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH
Comox Valley Collective 2020 Fall Literature is Lit
Full disclosure: I am a Traci Skuce fangirl, but because one of the things I love so much about the way she writes is her precision and economy of language, […]
Words by Nora Bingham

THE CURVE OF TIME
Comox Valley Collective 2020 Literature is Lit Spring
I grew up in a house where bookshelves reached the ceilings, with cascading spider plants tucked in among the books. Somewhere near the cobwebbed top shelf, a battered copy of […]
Words by Nora BinghamCover painting by Harry Heine

BRAVO FOR BUCKET OF BLOOD
Comox Valley Collective 2019 Winter
It’s two in the morning. I just turned the last page of Kim Bannerman’s book, Bucket of Blood. I flip through the last few blank pages, hoping for a shred […]
Words by Nora BinghamIllustration by Claire Guiot

THE BRIGHTEST PATH
Comox Valley Collective 2019 Summer
Escape. Run away. Get lost. Get free. Last winter, when the long stretch of darkness was at its most oppressive, a perfect storm of opportunity provided the light I needed. […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Meredith Rose

PRE-LOVED
Comox Valley Collective 2017 Fall
I have always loved reading, but fell hard for books when I was eight. We were living in an amateur’s converted barn with questionable heat and electricity, and no TV. […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Nora Bingham

MATERIAL CREATIVE
Comox Valley Collective 2017 Summer
When I arrived at Material Creative’s studio in Cumberland, an unseasonable rain was falling and the air was cool. Lush gardens led to a building reminiscent of all the hippie […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Meredith Rose

HEIRLOOM SEEDS
Comox Valley Collective 2017 Spring
The first time I ate an heirloom tomato I had my doubts. I was never a tomato lover. I’d seen too many sandwiches go down in the rough seas of […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Meredith Rose

WHERE CURIOSITY MEETS BRILLIANCE
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Fall
Imagine a library. Books lining the shelves, open ceilings, and the wonderful smell of endless possibilities floating through the air. Imagine a place where you can hide away from dull […]
Words by Nora Bingham& Comox Valley Kids

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Summer
I was raised by an artist. She painted signs, designed graphics, papier mâché’d masks, and rearranged and repainted our living room countless times. Her art hung on nearly every wall, […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Ron Pogue

LOST AND FOUND
Comox Valley Collective 2016 Spring Where
A light rain is trying to fall, but it’s more of a mist in the air that clings to eyelashes and hangs, tremulous on cedar branch tips before falling to […]
Words by Nora BinghamPhotos by Paige Owen