From the Mountains above the Applegate River

   Two days after  Christmas I put up a Christmas tree?   The day after  New Year's Eve I have a party?     Isn't that all kind of l...

      Today is Winter Solstice, and to my great delight, it's raining at last. It's a good hard, steady rain an honest-to-goodness, ...

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...