What Am I Supposed To Do?

I deliberately try to keep this blog apolitical. Yet, the theme of this blog is “one writer’s journey through life and time,” and sometimes my journey through time demands commentary. The past couple of weeks have been one of those times. We are caught in a pandemic that has led […]

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Fighting Fires: Now and Then

Many of the forest fires raging in the West this summer are not far from places I know—outside of Twisp and Omak and Okanogan near Lake Chelan in Washington State; Clark Fork near Lake Pend d’Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle; and other fires in Oregon. I remember fires from lightning […]

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