Magnetic North
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Vicki Biggs-Anderson
Vicki lives with her husband, Paul, on a nearly 100-year-old homestead in Colvill. She shares this special place with six goats, one guard llama, about two dozen laying hens, a few difficult geese and ducks, seven angora rabbits, a house cat and one yellow Lab. Besides feeding and changing "sheets" for all of the above, Vicki is mining her ten-plus years of columns for the old News-Herald for a book/situation comedy. Listen at your convenience by subscribing to a podcast.
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Magnetic North: Playing With Fire
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where just a hint of wood smoke flavors the air. Air so delicious that I don’t so much breathe it as gulp it down. Icy. Sweet.
Magnetic North: Old memories and new beginnings
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where the blustery winds of winter stir old memories.
Magnetic North: Shore lunch observed
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, a veritable smorgasbord for the birds and beasts of the field. At least the ones who hang out along the ribbon of highway hugging Lake Superior.
Magnetic North: Migration Station
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, migration central for the past month. Despite the hard freeze, gaggles of Canada geese devoured our lawn. Day after day. Frost after frost.
Magnetic North: Flutterbys Are Us
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North where the air is filled with winged things, and not the kind with feathers!
Magnetic North: Groundhogs’ Day
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where the neon yellow marsh marigolds embellish every pond and puddle, of which there are many after a week of incessant showers. Ah, May!
Magnetic North: Christmas in May for us Birdbrains
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Welcome back to Magnetic North, the destination for every migrating feathered beauty on earth - or so it seems to us birdbrains. By that I mean every bird lover, not just the watchers.
Magnetic North: Vicki's experience with breast cancer
-In 2006 Vicki was diagnosed with breast cancer. This October she passed a major mile stone for any survivor—five years cancer free.
Magnetic North: Humbled by Nature and Joy
Vicki Biggs-Anderson-Ahhhhh, late summer, my favorite time of year, next to winter, of course.
