Coming Home

I set out last Thursday morning nearly on schedule for the SW corner of Olympic National Park. My plan was to escape my tiny apartment, backpack into a more remote wilderness than I had been able to yet access this year, refresh myself from an intense Voiceover auditioning schedule for the prior month. I hadContinue reading “Coming Home”

Requiem for a Ring

On my way back upcoast from my Brookings reconnaissance, I decided to stop early in the ride in order to ease the subsequent legs of the 5 & 1/2 hour trip back to Portland. With the return of a sore neck and back courtesy of a fold-out bed, noisy campsite neighbors, and then yet anotherContinue reading “Requiem for a Ring”

Beyond Heat Dome 2021?

7/1/2021- Clouds again the first half of the day. Thank you for small blessings. I am trying to process Heat Dome 2021, still trying to find the humor, some kind of positive takeaway message after seeing what I wrote nearer the experience itself. A palpable harbinger of doom, the arrival and prolonged stagnation of aContinue reading “Beyond Heat Dome 2021?”

Alabama and White Witches

6/9/21- Cooler, Sun and Clouds- thinking about Alabama and White Witches…. I went for a walk in the woods the other day after my monthly spinal realignment. Often I’m a little spaced out after hearing and feeling the joints of my neck popping back into place; the adjustment is often rather violent, leaving me inContinue reading “Alabama and White Witches”

Tree Secrets

Companion piece to IG photos @ t3killahbee. Thinking about the human thirst for new adventures, for new anything, always…. I caught myself in a downward spiral last week wishing for new as I bemoaned continued work and finance challenges, disruptive neighbors and alleyway visitors, the uptick of violent crime in my neighborhood, the slow demiseContinue reading “Tree Secrets”