photo: Steve Ringman for The Seattle Times

I’ll stand with farmers (of the small and sustainable school) in almost any fight, but a recent dust-up – forgive me, but it this case it should really be a mud-up – in southwest Washington’s Lewis county has me puzzled.
Folks there are still recovering from early December floods. A […]

Fall is the beginning of the rainy season in Seattle but everything looks sunny to me.
Maybe it’s because so much of what I read is optimistic.
I read a couple of blogs by writers living in joyful abundance when many people would focus on the deprivation. Gluten-Free Girl Shauna James Ahern lives with celiac […]

The Unsettling of America
I am motivated to create this journal as a means of capturing ideas and making connections between them. Wendell Berry’s Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture is an apt starting place because it thoughtfully addresses many things I care about and coherently relates them. I begin with the hope that I can […]