by Tele | Feb 19, 2017 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We’re less than a week away from Oregon’s annual FisherPoets Gathering, friends! The highlight of our winter, FisherPoets is always special — this one especially so, as we celebrate the 20th year of commercial fishing women and men from across...
by Tele | Jan 20, 2017 | Culture, Hooked Favorites, Reading & Writing
I was fourteen years old when a man grabbed me by the pussy. We were in the checkout line of our Pacific Northwest town’s Payless drugstore. It was early evening, one week before Valentine’s Day, and I was buying a cassette tape as...
by Tele | Feb 16, 2016 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
It’s almost time, friends! Oregon’s nineteenth annual FisherPoets Gathering is less than two weeks away, with storytellers, musicians, and poets readying to flood Astoria this February 26 – 28. It’s an immersion into the authentic, captains and...
by Tele | Oct 19, 2015 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
Last June, my editor’s response to Draft #2 arrived on our doorstep just as we were preparing to head north. If there can be a good time or place to face the fact that your book needs major revisions, I found mine in the Nerka’s pilot seat, alone on my...
by Tele | Feb 28, 2015 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing
It’s a magical day in Astoria, Oregon: sun on the sidewalks, festive chop on the Columbia. I’m tucked in the Blue Scorcher Bakery (try the cardamom rolls), an introvert on glorious overload, trying to steal an hour of quiet time to recharge. Red...
by Tele | Jan 28, 2015 | Culture, Family, Hooked Favorites, Reading & Writing
Head down, I watch my snow boots creep across the lake, one shuffle-step at a time. Joel doesn’t shuffle. He hustles, hunched beneath his camera bag as he rushes for a distant spot of blue. Ice wiped clean by the wind: the perfect frame to lead...
