The View From Blyn Lookout
A couple of months ago my husband, Bruce, and I bought a new-to-us camper, the cabover style, from some folks out near Lake...
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...
It’s Easy Being Green — Even After Death
Leslie Jocelyn Aickin 1947 ~ 20?? “She loved the Earth, and now the earth is loving her right back.”
Feature photo...
Wanda Fuca: Of Votes and Potatoes
by Wanda Fuca
Election season is here, and just like clockwork, so is the best entertainment. If campaigns were awarded Emmys, ours would go to...
Senior City: How Old Are We?
By Dan Klepinger and Ross Anderson.
You’ve probably noticed that Port Townsend and Jefferson County are old. But numbers don't tell the whole story.
How...
Porgy and Bess now
Don White was on KPTZ last week hosting his “Broadway Showtime” program and talking about the musical Porgy and Bess, the 1959 film version....
There is a road
There is a road I drive
many evenings
between a friend's house and mine
To the west
a jagged line of firs
black against the evening sky.
The sky, deep...
Roundabout
By Wanda Fuca
Roundabout is our inaugural items column, an ongoing collection of local observations and anecdotes that seem worth sharing. The idea is to...
The Deep Sanity of Living in a Co-Housing Village
By Brad Matsen
In the winter of 2019, my sweetheart and I moved into a fifty-five-and-over co-housing community on the western slope of Morgan...
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What Puget Sound Pilots Want You to Know
It may sound counterintuitive, but when a big ship leaves the high seas and enters the restricted waters of Puget Sound, it is entering...
Welcome to The Rainshadow Journal!
Rainshadow Journal is a website of news, commentary and photography produced by a collective of retired journalists and co-conspirators, most of us in Port...
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...
The View From Blyn Lookout
A couple of months ago my husband, Bruce, and I bought a new-to-us camper, the cabover style, from some folks out near Lake...
Flattening the Climate Curve
"We have met the enemy and they is us." Pogo by Walt Kelly
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely...
