Welcome to The Rainshadow Journal!

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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...

Fogknife

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One cold February day eons ago I walked into Brion Toss’s rigging shop in Port Townsend. As usual, he was in a jovial mood...

The View From Blyn Lookout

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                                        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...

A ticklish subject

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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...

Dog Breeds for Writers

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An open letter to dogs from Sparkleton T. Puppy II, esq. Deer Peepl, meaning my peepl (dogs), Pleaz, for the love of soup bones, do not...

On the Mast – The oldest image joining man and woman

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We welcome to the Rainshadow crew a new writer, Tayloe Washburn. Tayloe has been writing this successful series he calls "On The Mast" which...

Welcome back

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Rainshadow is back. But where have we been? Let's say that it is easy to start a production such as this, but it's very...

The New Night Before Christmas

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With apologies to Clemont Clarke Moore Twas the night before ChristmasAnd all through the houseNo tech seemed workingNot even my mouse.The stockings were emptyBy the...

Summertime…. And the Crabbin’ Was Easy

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Back in August, boaters in my neighborhood near Port Townsend decided to throw a community crab feed. Over a few days, they caught and...