CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
CV Collective 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
