The word was easy to read even from my vantage point, upside down from the doctor’s view. In front of…
On my 19,947th day on earth, I learned something that came as a complete surprise: I am not invincible to…
Snap! I felt a pop at the back of my knee as I reached mile five along one of the…
Two fat flies spin wacky spirals around my head and torso, like tiny sharks circling their prey. House flies vomit…
The shell collector skillfully maneuvers his way across the beach, wades through waves, and sifts through sand to locate mollusks,…
This spring, about 83,000 11th-grade students in Washington will become the first to sit for the new high school science…
“Some one was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over…
The water surface was as smooth as glass during its last week of limited operation in mid-February, when it was…
It’s time to end exit testing requirements for Washington state high school students. Setting the bar high to ensure high…
I opened my front door to the quietest of knocks. Our six-year-old son waited with a stranger. My heart raced…
I used to think of trees as majestic, oxygen-producing shade-providers. Not anymore. Reading Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees…
Making my way over and between barnacled, blunt-edged rocks and boulders along the north shore of Bowman Bay, quiet clickings…
A line of bibbed runners file past as we enter the Taneum Junction Campground parking lot in Cle Elum. This…
