Shavings in my brassiere #5
ANOTHER USE FOR IT
I worked for a fella many years ago who had a small sailboat and a small budget. It needed a lot of...
When I was a Secret Agent
Many years ago and far, far away, (southwest Florida in 1982, to be exact), I was living and working in a marina fifteen miles...
Diana Talley – Shavings in my brassiere #4
Boats and Shipwrights
Jack graduated Edison Tech after World War 2 and became a shipwright. Working with long lengths of tight grained Alaska Yellow Cedar,...
Flip Wingrove’s Joyful Flight – 1930-2022
A decade ago, I stood in front of my house alongside my neighbor, Phillip “Flip” Wingrove, and watched the Boeing 787 Dreamliner soar over...
Diana Talley: Shavings in my Brassiere #3
We bring you another week of stories from Port Townsend's shipwright Diana Talley.
The Leak
“If you can keep a boat afloat for 24 hours, you...
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...
Diana Talley – Shavings in my brassiere #2
ABSENTIA
I left something behind at a fancy hotel... in absentia.
Many years ago an old girlfriend was having a passionate, extremely private affair with a...
Diana Talley – Shavings in my brassiere
I met the unsinkable Diana Talley many years ago. It was at a party of wooden boat people. Diana has been a foundational person...
We Regret the Error: 100 Years of Editorial Blindness
The following story first appeared in Post Alley.
Last weekend, the Seattle Times issued a highly unusual mea culpa, revisiting and apologizing for its 1942...
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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...
The New Supreme Court
Cartoon above by Karen Sullivan.
The Democrats should have a chance of beating Republicans in many states, with a newly fired up base because...
So Long, Pygmy Kayaks
More than three decades ago, when guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were building technology companies that would change the world, another Ivy...
Infinite Tenderness – Chapter 2
In the first part of Infinite Tenderness to appear in Rainshadow Journal, you met Hershel Prall, who was looking for his son Landon on...
Update: Protection Island
It could have been worse. So says Peter Hodum, of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, after a day assessing the biological damage...
