Pandemic Predictions
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, the transition back to normalcy has been tragically upended by a combination of the...
SuperNatural BC? Do Not Enter
The B.C. provincial government has greeted spring with a stern order to those who would recreate in “Beautiful British Columbia”: Stay home. With a...
Why Covid-19 Vaccine Refusal is Dangerous
A recent Rainshadow article by Peggy Myre featured a photo I took while waiting in the Jefferson Healthcare vaccine automobile line. Within two days...
Love in the Time of Covid
March 15, 2020, message from the Port Townsend School District:
We are looking forward to seeing students at school on Monday so teachers and students can...
The Back of the Herd
Looking through the windshield while waiting in line at the Jefferson Healthcare drive-thru vaccination clinic. (Karen Sullivan photo)
Have you overheard the wafting conversations from...
The Value of Humor in Navigating Dire Straits
Being neither an early bird nor a night owl but more of an exhausted pigeon, I have come to realize that no, we’re not...
Treading Water: PT’s Nonprofits and the Virus
By Ross Anderson
When the state closed down for the pandemic, the staff of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center did what most of us...
Screen Binging? Not Me. No Way
I never thought I could binge out streaming videos, but one rainy day changed that.
I know it's happening out there. Home-bound Americans are camped...
Assessing Science Amid the Pandemic
Science is making a comeback. Putting aside the lazy, if not insulting cliché of scientist as nerd, as if studious curiosity was a character...
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Getting a Little Squirrely
Squirrels are fascinating, and we have 25 species of the Squirrel Family in our region, according to David Moskowitz’s Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest....
The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Photo of Tom Robbins by Dan Wallen. Used with permission of University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections MPH1272
When I was the editor of the...
It’s Easy Being Green — Even After Death
Leslie Jocelyn Aickin 1947 ~ 2023 “She loved the Earth, and now the earth is loving her right back.”
Feature photo...
Where’s my Glass of Wine? And What Does Housing Have to Do With It?
I recently went out for dinner with a neighbor, a part-time, mostly-here-in-the-summer- kind of neighbor. He teaches at a university, leads research, and publishes...
A ticklish subject
I’ve been doing some research on Humor recently. Weighty tomes with nearly incomprehensible charts and graphs and jargon tackle the subject from every conceivable...
