COMMON SENSE, CONCERN for our entire community’s welfare and frugality guide our opposition to Port Angeles School District’s $52 million levy proposal increasing PASD property… Continue reading
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news. The Upper Hoh Road washed out again. This popular entrance to Olympic National Park welcomes over 80,000… Continue reading
Our Port Angeles community is generous and spirited. I’ve asked myself again, why we are not investing in our Port Angeles Schools? Let me take… Continue reading
BY NOW WE are all fed up with know-it-all newspaper columnists telling us what the most important events of the last
10 years were. Anything… Continue reading
IT’S JANUARY, THE time of reflections on the past and promises for the future. The Babylonians were the first people to make New Year’s promises… Continue reading
THREE BABIES ATTENDED the first meeting of Jefferson Healthcare’s task force on child care. I’ve been a member of, or facilitated, hundreds of task forces… Continue reading
“IT WAS RAINING, of course … Wind from the south, strong and steady and cold, fanned across the swell, kicking up a nasty chop around… Continue reading
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news with the recurring snowmaggedon, the heartbreaking Seahawks playoff loss to the Packers and the month long shutdown… Continue reading
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew simmering, fresh baked biscuits and a whistling… Continue reading
WE’RE DUE FOR stories of triumph as we start this new year, don’t you think? It’s easy to feel defeated now and again. But here… Continue reading
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would. Writing our nation’s only weekly wilderness gossip column is… Continue reading
THIS HAS BEEN a controversial Christmas season in the controversial year where everything is offensive if you think about it long and hard enough and… Continue reading
EMPATHY AND FACEBOOK combine in a kind of cowboy winter-gear drive out here in the badlands of Port Townsend. Aki Avelino has just finished rustling… Continue reading
(WITH APOLOGIES TO Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.) I am 8 years old. My family and I have… Continue reading
THIS IS A morning that can make you feel like a spawned-out salmon headed downstream tail first. Now, I am not going to waste valuable… Continue reading
I’D GIVEN UP on finding the Sacred Heart. Husband Phil and I drove into and all around the Spokane Indian Reservation in search of it,… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news made even tougher by the long Thanksgiving weekend. For one thing, people are questioning the history, ethics… Continue reading
THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days. It was back in the Depression, the Dirty Thirties. Pa… Continue reading
DON’T DREAD THE winter, I tell myself. Dread doesn’t help anything. Going outside does. Let me explain. On a recent rainy, windy afternoon I saw… Continue reading
IT ALL STARTED with an attempt to share in nature’s bounty and celebrate the harvest of wild foods. It was a bad idea that just… Continue reading
