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November 18, Yes, Virginia, there is Virtue in the world (still)
November 15, A House call, of sorts…
November 13, Critters (photo essay)
November 10, America, behind the moon
November 7, Gobsmacked
November 5, Let’s take a Walk (photo essay)
November 3, Two phone calls and a blow to the head
October 30, Wide awake in Seattle
October 28, Democracy dies in staff meetings
October 26, Wrens (and friends) (photo essay)
October 24, The crocodile in the recliner
October 22, Al French in the PFAS corn maze
October 19, Ramiro’s question and stories from a tumultuous week
October 13, Florida, a postscript
October 10, Time in a small bottle
October 1, A Respite in the Scablands, and addressing Journalism’s Achilles Heel
September 25, The Year of the Cat
September 22, Summer Fare (photo essay)
September 19, Flickers of progress in citizen oversight on the West Plains “forever chemical” fiasco.
September 15, How Donald Trump corralled the evangelicals on abortion
September 11, About last night…
September 10, How the threat of the Spokane airport’s groundwater contamination is coming into focus
September 6, The cracks in Al French’s looking glass
September 1, The story beneath the stories
August 25, An apology, two struggles and three remarkable women
August 22, A quiver of favorite photographs
August 18, A mid-summer night’s gasp
August 15, How an exalted sociopath broke journalism
August 12, Israel’s relentless war on journalism
August 11, A return to the Redband realm (photo feature)
August 9, A prayer on the winds of time
August 7, Kamala Harris’s voice, and choice
August 5, The other fires that keep me awake at night
August 3, Kamala Harris v. Two men behaving badly
July 30, A visit to the “Hoh Formation”
July 28, Rupert Murdock, on his road to perdition
July 23, How the world changed in 48 hours
July 21, Of tide pools, trains, Joe Biden’s announced departure, and a year that feels eerily familiar.
July 14, A week away to beat the heat, and a Rhubarb sampler
July 12, A belated apology, and postscripts to the corruptions of the Roberts Court
•July 10, Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the Corruption of our American Dreams, Part 2 of 2 (The Reckoning)
•July 8, Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the Corruption of our American Dreams, Part 1 of 2 (The Betrayal)
•July 5, The coolest moose in town
•July 3, Hard working birds with colors from the sky (photo feature)
•July 2, The Court of King Trump