BOOKS 3C THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2015 WHAT ARE THEY READING? Fetch some tissues for this dog tale Veterinarian writes about Iriendship Iamily and loss By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Special to The Daily Astorian Y our dog knows all the basic commands. +e can S3($K in- door voice and outdoor voice. +e’s got SIT all buttoned up with his behind planted ¿rmly on the Àoor. +e can ST$Y all day long iI you need him to and he F(T&+es like a pro — which is great. You’ll need him to Ietch you some tissues when you read ³$ll Dogs *o to Kev- in´ by Dr. -essica Vogelsang. With Iew Iriends and a need Ior solitude nerdy teen -essi- ca Vogelsang knew that she was e[pected to attend college but she wasn’t happy with her choices. Being a doctor ³was the most palatable option´ but by her senior year in college ³the luster had worn oII the idea´ and she was ³completely conIused.´ Stubbornly determined she soldiered on until the day she Iollowed students into a lab to observe surgery on a pig. She graduated went home and enrolled in veterinary school. A guy named Kevin Vogelsang came late to being an animal lover. When she was years old her parents allowed a /ha- sa $pso named TaIIy into the household. The dog was grumpy but Vogelsang under- stood since she also just want- ed to be leIt alone. TaIIy was the ¿rst dog she loved and she was rightly upset when years later her mother had the elderly pooch euthanized without no- tice. 5eally though as a veter- inarian Vogelsang understood that too. $ seize-liIe-by-the-throat kind oI guy named Kevin had introduced Vogelsang to the man who would become her husband and she was married by the time TaIIy died. +er dog’s death made Vogelsang long Ior the pitter-patter oI little (puppy BOOK REVIEW “All Dogs Go to Kevin,” by Dr. Jessica Vogelsang Grand Central Publishing, 325 pages, 2015 $26.00/$29.00 Canada Ieet so she and her husband ad- opted a *olden 5etriever (m- mett who’d been abandoned. He ultimately saved Vogel- sang’s liIe. *oldens however are prone to cancer which is what beIell (mmett who lived long enough to see two children born to the Iamily. His death leIt a void that Vogelsang couldn’t bear and her children couldn’t grasp: In a misunderstanding they thought Emmett had gone to stay with Iamily Iriend Kevin. 1ot Iorgotten Emmett gave way to Kekoa then Brody then … We like to believe ³that … we own (our pets´ says Vo- gelsang at least until the ³lease has e[pired.´ The truth is ³We teach our dogs to µstay’ but they never do.´ Lesson about motherhood It’s really quite trite to say ³I laughed I cried´ at this book. I know it is but I can’t help it: That about sums up what I Iound in ³$ll Dogs *o to Kevin.´ $uthor Dr. -essica Vogel- sang doesn’t just write about dogs though. This is also a book about Iamily Iriendship un- timely loss and making dreams come Iearlessly true. It contains those behind-the-scenes tales and unique client stories you e[- pect in a book by a veterinarian. We learn an important lesson about new motherhood that’s ³delivered … by a *olden 5e- triever.´ $nd yes iI you’ve ever loved and lost a pet (particularly a dog this book will make you laugh and you’ll cry. $t the very least Ior sure ³$ll Dogs *o to Kevin´ will make you SIT Ior awhile. Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 14,000 books. Submitted Photo BIRDWATCHING 3ileated woodpecker — another drummer By MADELINE A. KALBACH Special to EO Media Group Madeline Kalbach/Submitted Photo Pileated woodpeckers can be observed at Cape Disap- pointment, Beard’s Hollow and Leadbetter Point. T he pileated woodpeck- er like the hairy and downy woodpeckers is also a drummer. The drumming is loud and is used to proclaim territory but it is not the 5ingo Starr oI birds. Its call however is loud and a lot louder than those oI either the downy or the hairy. The pileated sounds like a Àicker but is much much louder and stronger. Evidence that a pileated woodpecker is in the area is the presence oI deep wide rectangular holes in trees. The pileated digs these holes as it Iorages Ior ants and wood bor- ing beetle larvae. It has a long sticky saliva covered pointed tongue with barbs that it uses to e[tract the ants and beetles out oI tunnels in the wood. It will also eat Iruit and nuts. The pileated is the largest woodpecker in 1orth $merica. It is the size oI a crow. Its body is nearly all black with white wing linings. The male has a prom- inent red cap white Iace and neck stripes a red moustache and a gray bill. The Iemale is similar but her moustache stripe is black as is her cap. /ook Ior this bird in the Ior- est and at Iorest edges. It is con- sidered uncommon in the Willa- pa 1ational WildliIe 5eIuge and in other areas oI the peninsula but is seen all year round. The best locations include &ape Dis- appointment Beard’s Hollow and /eadbetter 3oint. In addition to insects the pileated enjoys suet and sun- Àower seeds. Thus we can also look Ior this woodpecker at Ieeders but looking in areas with hollow trees and snags is the best bet. THE SHIP REPORT ‘The Captain’s A Woman’ By JOANNE RIDEOUT Special to The Daily Astorian R ecently I came across a story about a milestone in the maritime industry that will happen later this summer: The ¿rst $merican Iemale cruise ship captain will take command oI a ship a &elebrity &ruises vessel. San Francisco native Kate 0c&ue is years old and rose through the cruise ship industry ranks to reach the level oI mas- ter mariner. By all accounts she¶s an impressive person and indeed with so much at stake tons oI ship to com- mand passengers and crew there¶s no way she¶d be on the bridge in that role iI she wasn’t a crackerjack sailor. I’m celebrating this well deserved honor and I imagine that 0c&ue dearly loves her work or she wouldn’t be there. I’ve Iound that to be true oI all the women mariners I have met and there are many. They like their male counterparts have the sea in the veins and Ieel most happy when they are on something that’s aÀoat. This occasion also seems like a good opportunity to rec- ognize and thank all those oth- er women who also serve on ships and have been serving Ior awhile now. The ones who have in eIIect paved the way Ior 0c&ue and others aIter her to attain leadership positions on ships — people who proved (against popular industry sen- timent that women can do as good a job as any man. A pioneer 2ne oI these pioneers is a Iormer resident oI our /ower &olumbia community. 0any oI us around these parts know 'eborah 'empsey: &aptain master mariner &olumbia 5iv- er bar pilot e[pert sailor and all around impressive human being. I was Iortunate to meet 'eb in the course oI my work with The Ship 5eport and she’s a Iriend. I’ve talked with her a lot about her work and learned about what it’s like to be a woman in the industry. 'eb’s liIe has been one oI ¿rsts. She started out on the (ast &oast as a water-crazy teen who learned to sail well and spent summers delivering yachts Irom 1ew (ngland wa- ters to warmer climes down south. $t some point she decided that a liIe at sea was the way to go. She began a ground- breaking career when she ap- plied and was accepted into the 0aine 0aritime $cademy. 'uring those years women were scarce in the seagoing proIessions. She encountered a great deal oI resistance in some quarters on that educational journey but to her credit she persevered and became the ¿rst women ever to graduate Irom a U.S. maritime academy. She went on to become the ¿rst woman ever to attain an international unlimited tonnage master’s license — which is in- dustry lingo Ior someone who has reached the point in their proIessional career where they can captain any ship anywhere oI any size on any waters. /at- er in her career she became the ¿rst Iemale &olumbia 5iver bar pilot. 'eb retired Irom that post a Iew years back and moved north to :ashington state so we don’t see her around $storia much these days. But looking back on my interviews with her I Iound her to be someone who preIerred not to talk much about being the ¿rst woman this or that. Mostly she wanted to be considered a good Iriend an honorable person and then a mariner. Regarded with suspicion Deb was acutely aware that she was regarded with suspicion and even disbelieI by many men in the industry especially in her early years on board. She told me about boarding ships as a pilot and having the captain look around Ior the ³real´ pilot assuming that she was the pilot’s wiIe just along Ior the ride. Deb mostly took all this in stride but she did tell me that she learned early on that she would have to be ³twice as good´ at her work as her male coworkers in order to be con- sidered adequate. She more than rose to the occasion. You can read about Deb’s illustrious career in a book she published a number oI years back called ³The &aptain’s $ :oman.´ It gives readers a taste oI the struggles and intes- tinal Iortitude it took to push her way through those cultural barriers. When I consider all this about Deb I can’t help but wonder what barriers &apt. Mc&ue has had to rise above to get where she is. I hope the barriers were Iewer than what Deb encountered — that would be progress. There are more women than ever in the maritime industry and I salute them all. It’s an un- conventional liIe that is not Ior everyone. $nyone who knows me knows that I celebrate all mar- iners Ior the work they do male or Iemale. It’s a proIession Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian KMUN General Manager Joanne Rideout is the voice of The Ship Report. where e[pertise trumps all bar- riers when things start to hit the Ian. It’s work that’s largely un- seen but vitally important. Imagine Imagine something with me Ior a moment right here on our own &olumbia 5iver: It’s the middle oI 1ovem- ber in the dead oI night a gale is howling the seas are topping Ieet and the &o- lumbia 5iver Bar 3ilots and the &oast *uard are debating whether to just close the bar at the mouth oI the river and be done with it. The seas are getting too big and the ris- ing wind is making it hard to control a big ship in the nar- row channel. Into that maelstrom every winter male or Iemale and without most oI us knowing it’s happening go the &o- lumbia 5iver Bar 3ilots. $ll that matters then and there is whether you can do the job. We have those e[perts right here. $nd they perIorm those miracles day in and day out. $s a woman myselI I’m very glad to see those doors opening the maritime industry to allow more women to pur- sue work they love. +ere’s to a Iuture oI work- places everywhere where what matters is what you can do not what you look like. Joanne Rideout is general manager of Coast Community Radio (KMUN-FM) in Asto- ria. She’s also the creator and producer of The Ship Report, a radio show and podcast about All Things Maritime. You can hear The Ship Re- port on Coast Community Radio at 8:48 a.m. weekdays at 91.9FM, streaming at www.coastradio.org. Podcast available on The Ship Report website at www.shipreport. net. W hile other n ew spa pers give you less, The D a ily Astoria n GIVES YOU M ORE O u r n ew C APITAL B UREAU covers the sta te for you From left: Peter W on g, H illa ry Borru d , M a teu sz Perk ow sk i