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...
by Tele | Jun 25, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
53⁰23.596’ N 129⁰52.095’ W 11:15 pm, Principe Channel, British Columbia Dusk tames the ocean. Dims it to liquid mercury, a silver sheet with yellow threads peeking from the folds. My favorite kind of ocean. The hillsides bracketing this two-mile...
by Tele | Mar 10, 2014 | Reading & Writing
Just as Cap’n J and I outfit the Nerka with emergency equipment – radio, bilge pumps, fire extinguishers – I reach for particular survival gear as a writer. Lately, the one I’ve been keeping closest is Dani Shapiro’s Still Writing:...
by Tele | Feb 1, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We spend all summer moving through the salmon season, yet September always sneaks up on me. It lunges out from where it’s been hiding, hunched behind the corner of August. I jump every time. The end of my residency with the North Cascades...
