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 Institute feels...
by Tele | Jan 1, 2014 | Reading & Writing
Happy New Year, friends! Finally, a postcard for you that actually is a postcard, thanks to Cap’n J’s Solstice photo shoot. (And how awesome is my many-legged friend? Socktopus is my crafty sister Ashley’s work.) It was a pretty wild New Year’s Eve...
by Tele | Dec 19, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing
Hi friends – A month into my time with the North Cascades Institute, I’m thinking that a writer’s residency is something like a fishing season. As on the Nerka, I rely on routine here in Dogwood 2. Instead of getting the gear in the water at first light,...
by Tele | Nov 28, 2013 | Reading & Writing
Hi friends – Some of you know my Thanksgiving falls at the end of September. Fishermen’s Thanksgiving, where we celebrate a safe and successful season. The fourth Thursday of November doesn’t ring true to me in the same way. This year is different. This...
by Tele | Nov 20, 2013 | Culture, Reading & Writing
Shortly after my return Down South this September, I received a letter from my friend Sarah. A real, honest-to-goodness letter: USPS-ushered from Seattle to Bellingham, turquoise envelope double-stamped in honor of its heft. The card was lovely (whale,...
