From the Mountains above the Applegate River

    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...

      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...