As the biggest and brightest full moon of 2020 snuck her way over the horizon and floated into the atmosphere above our beloved Salish Sea, I stepped onto our back deck to watch as the…

I’ve been using the word overwhelmed to describe my emotional experience throughout this COVID pandemic. Overwhelmed by its ominous presence; overwhelmed by its ease of contagion; overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of those infected. But…

It took me a couple weeks to come to the realization I had yesterday. I needed that time to comprehend everything that was and is happening throughout the world right now. During those days, I…

I wrote this in October of 2017 after Tache and I took our first trip together to Neah Bay, the furthest point of the PNW coastline. I'm posting it now because I recently went back…

If I want to slip into the saddest place my brain can take me, I don’t think of the day of Kenai’s death. I think of the day after. The day I opened my eyes…

When a town measures its size in traffic lights, it doesn’t matter how many there really are. One, two, three – it doesn’t matter – you know the town is small. My sister decided to…