Tickling Keyboards at Type Townsend
At some point, long before the pandemic, manual typewriters seemed to join rotary telephones, hand-cranked car windows and kerosene lanterns on the scrap heap...
Infinite Tenderness – Chapter 5
Chapter 5 of the unpublished novel Infinite Tenderness by local author & Rainshadow Journal Founding member Mark Clemens. The story is set in New Orleans as...
Sometimes You Can See the Going Coming
This week we welcome the wonderful writing of Corky Parker to The Rainshadow Journal. Corky has been living in two worlds for a number...
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...
Sorting out the Shakedown
I am in the thick, green, wet and sparkly Maine woods. My writing station set up with tea, breakfast, and Merlin bird app, to...
A Christmas Eve Story
When I was a young girl my father always assisted Santa in the most delightful ways. It was one of his special things that...
Infinite Tenderness – Chapter 3
In the first chapter of Infinite Tenderness, we met Hershel Prall, who was looking for his mentally ill son Landon in New Orleans on...
Crossing Prince William Sound
We welcome back Corky Parker to Rainshadow Journal after her summer work in Alaska!
As Bill, my Captain, and I round the corner, north...
Rule by HOA: The Price of Predictability
Rule By HOA: The Price of Predictability
A few months ago, Cape George Colony, our private community out on Discovery Bay, seemed on the verge...
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Spider Web Colors
Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...
Twenty-nine years: American decimation of whales and the Makah permitting process
You may have heard that the US government will now allow the Makah Tribe to hunt whales again.
Not quite.
The US will now allow the...
Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction
Editor's note: With the launch of Oppenheimer, we are once again reminded of the legacy of the atomic bomb, and of the people and...
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...
The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins
Updating this to honor the life and times of Tom Robbins, who walked on today. He lived a remarkable life.This post originally appeared here...
