BIRD WATCHING IS my life. Some of my best bird-watching has been done with a
chainsaw. Considered unethical by the same people who say it’s… Continue reading
BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled along beaches at low tide when the… Continue reading
IT TAKES A big man to admit you’re wrong. Unfortunately, I am not that man. While I’d never admit to being wrong, I have been… Continue reading
OUR HOUSING CRISIS has complex roots going back decades. As economist Jenny Schuetz says in her book, “Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems,”… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Port Angeles, making their voices heard in a crowd. One reporter said… Continue reading
ON BEHALF OF myself and not the federal agency I currently work for, I’d like to share a few thoughts. This last month has been… Continue reading
IT’S ONLY FEBRUARY, but our Olympic Peninsula tourist season has already started. While profiling and stereotyping is wrong, when you see an RV the size… Continue reading
“IT MUST BE nice to be a fishing guide.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard this, there is no way I… Continue reading
THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than digging potatoes in the snow. I know, I should have dug them sooner but it’s just another… Continue reading
IF I HEARD this once I’ve heard it a million times from the old-timers who claimed that winters in the old days were a lot… Continue reading
HOW’S THE FISHING? If I had a buck for every time somebody asked that question, I wouldn’t waste my time as a wilderness gossip columnist.… Continue reading
AS A CHILD, I wanted to be a cowboy. To wake up under a starlit western sky to a breakfast of coffee, beans and bacon… Continue reading
but it helps. At least you can take… Continue reading
THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped this land into one of the most… Continue reading
THE SECRET OF making and keeping New Year’s resolutions is to focus on the little things that can improve our lives, help our fellow man… Continue reading
With apologies to Charles Dickens. HUMBUG! I HUFFED and puffed my way through the newspaper lobby, crammed as it was with holiday well-wishers yammering their… Continue reading
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with those phony Christmas letters some people keep sending year after year. You… Continue reading
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