Don't get me wrong--I love my children to pieces, more than words can describe, to the moon and back. But if there was anything I was...

Appeared in Methow Valley News 2.20.2025 There sure has been eggs-ceptional hullabaloo about the price of eggs lately. Eggheads on all...

Appeared in Methow Valley News 6.5.2024 In the birth years of the Methow Valley Class of 2024 — 2005 and 2006 — Hurricane Katrina hit...

appeared in the Methow Valley News 1.3.24 The “polar plunge”—jumping into water around Christmas or New Years Day in a cold climate—is in...

appeared in Methow Valley News, 12.28.23 Years ago my family and some friends launched a tradition of caroling our neighbors at...

appeared in the Methow Valley News 11.22.23 A few times in the past I’ve written about the benefits of keeping a gratitude journal, but...

appeared in the Methow Valley News 7.27.2023 I don’t know how to write about last Tuesday’s car accident on Twisp River Road that...

* I recently helped with a writing workshop for local eighth grade students, who have been working on creative non-fiction pieces,...

It was a big year, 2022. My oldest daughter graduated from high school. I left a nonprofit organization I'd been with for 12 years and...

* For Thanksgiving dinner eaten in the old Bluebird Grain Farms packing room 1) A dark morning with a house full of sleeping children,...

Poof! Just like that, they're gone. These children you carried, inside you, on your hip, on your front, on your back. Clinging to your...

appeared in the Methow Valley News, 8.24.2022 Sometime in late 2016, I was talking with Dr. John O’Keefe about flying. Dr. O’Keefe, as...

* thanks to Kelly Hayden & Leila Myers for photos and videos The people hunkered down in the shade above the sandbar couldn't see it, but...

appeared in Methow Valley News, 6.1.2022 Along with nearly 60 of her classmates in the Methow Valley School District, my oldest daughter...

appeared in Bluebird Grain Farms 2.24.2022 photos courtesy of James Austin A childhood spent on a farm normalized the mammalian birth...

Appeared in the Methow Valley News, 1.12.2022 When the universe (or at least the troposphere) presents us with an opportunity to revel in...

*appeared in Methow Valley News 12.8.2021 *photos from days of yore When I volunteered to write about venturing back into the woods to...

* an excerpt from this post appears in the Methow Valley News, Valley Life 11.24.2021 On Halloween Eve 2020, some friends and I went for...

appeared in Methow Valley News Valley Life 8.25.2021 When assessing something, I like to rely on scientific data when it’s available, and...

appeared in Methow Valley News 8.4.2021 It’s the stuff of legend: local gal wearing only a bikini and sandals jumps on a horse and rides...