Deep River Road – A Book begins a Journey                                                Â
Words and Photographs by Joel W. Rogers
October 17th 2022 Cape Disappointment State Park.
Once again, my 1999 Subaru and I are doing what we were...
How to Answer the Call of the North
The following originally was published in Post Alley.
By the end of April, the annual migration will begin. Hundreds, then thousands of tourists from...
The Insights of Tralfamadorians and Quakers
Port Townsend author JoAnne Tompkins's novel What Comes After was the winner of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize runner up in fiction award...
Cherishing Our Actual Lives Beneath the Clouds
I lived most of my life in the Southwest, far from the upper left-hand corner of this country. How did I encounter Mike O’Connor...
Managing Fishermen, Just for the Halibut
Sometime soon, halibut will return to tables from Port Townsend to Manhattan. It will be excellent fish, pearly white, never frozen, fresh off the...
Learning to Lie
Three years ago, my lovely man died after many years of living with every possible indignity Alzheimer’s could throw at him. We faced it...
Sky-Blue
Today we welcome a new voice to Rainshadow Journal, Brooks Townes. Brooks is well known to many. We are immensely happy to have him...
When a writer encounters ChatGPT
What happens when a novelist encounters ChatGPT? Lately, around my house, I have been discussing the pros and cons of this new hyped technology....
Homeward Through the Haze
And there's so much time to make upEverywhere you turnTime we have wasted on the waySo much water movingUnderneath the bridgeLet the water come...
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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...
On the hard: Thea Foss
From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories
Movie Stars, Depth Charges and Tugboat Annie: The Story of the Thea Foss
I still can't think of...
Sockeye & Me: Two Journeys Cross Paths
Like so many of our neighbors, I was drawn to Port Townsend by saltwater and sawdust, and by the amazing wooden boats that blend...
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...
George Vancouver and the Puget Sound Map
On a foggy spring morning in May, 1792, 231 years ago this week, a sea-weary group of British sailors made their way out of...
