From the Mountains above the Applegate River

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

      The  Cleetwood Cove trail at Crater Lake National Park, the only access to the lake itself, will be closed after this summer for const...

     I spent the three days of my birthday weekend in Gasquet, at the northern California/southern Oregon coast, with four women friends:  C...

      In a few days I will turn 81. How old is that? Consider:     The family car, a '49 Plymouth, had running boards. My sister Linda a...

      It's July 4, but I'm not celebrating our country these days. Trump's crowing over his Big Beautiful Bill just about drowne...

     Unbelievably gorgeous landscapes, swims in cold mountain lakes, rigorous hiking, challenges met and overcome, good hiking companions—ev...

      I spent a few days  last week camping with my son, Ela, and a group of friends at a tiny log cabin                                    ...