Continue Reading Joy Harjo Yesterday I learned that Joy Harjo has been appointed as new US poet laureate, the first Native American to fill this role….
Continue Reading Fraught Freight With the oil boom in North Dakota and the extraction of Canadian tar sands, shipment of crude through the states of Washington…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge 2: The Witness How do you tell a story that is not necessarily your own? How do you draw a landscape that did not always…
Continue Reading Jacksonville Medley I fear all those nice folks who recently signed up for the blog expecting political discourse are in for a rude (if…
Continue Reading Bandon Rocks While my husband communed with the DA in Coquille, I communed with the dead in Bandon. The dead seals, that is, found…
Continue Reading Sausage Tales I have to give this to the men in my life – in addition to making me happy, they expand my culinary…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Exquisite Gorge (1) I have on previous occasions written on this or that aspect of Maryhill Museum in WA which I like to visit as…
Continue Reading The Small Fix Continuing from yesterday, here is another long take on what to do about fake news. Yesterday I offered some suggestions why propaganda and…
Continue Reading The Big Lie “…. this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is…
Continue Reading Urban Urchins A like for wide-open, grassy spaces near water. A preference for, yes, blueberries. Fidelity for life, with a mate chosen to match…
