Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

Making Change

  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...

A Voice Lost, then Found

  On Decem­ber 15th, six hours after sub­mit­ting Hooked’s final revi­sion, I lost my voice. Lit­er­al­ly. All these years a devot­ed dis­ci­ple of the “tell your sto­ry” gospel, and, upon sur­ren­der­ing that sto­ry for my editor’s review,...