From the Mountains above the Applegate River

Me (L) with Joan Peterson, July 2024                                                             photo by Beate Foit     One of the poems in...

    Last weekend I fell to my knees before the bones of a gray whale. They were white and clean and hard, laid out in categories: here were ...

    Last week was Banned Book Week.      Just the idea of banning books is anathema to me, even though I kind of get it. Words are powerful....

       My thighs have been so sore since climbing Mt. Thielson that I have lurched whenever I stand up.      It was that kind of hike.      ...

     I have just returned from backpacking for four days in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon. S...

      The second of my two stories for The Hearth's storytelling event, on the theme of family secrets,  was about another secret from m...

      This past week I was one of six storytellers at The Hearth, a periodic storytelling event in Grants Pass, Oregon. The theme was family...