Sea Song I was surprised to hear lines from Dylan Thomas’s poem “Fern Hill” come back to me as I watched my children and grandchildren play in the pastures and on the beaches of Cornwall. by Steve Charles As I was green and carefree, famous among the...
Still Here “Just about the time I’d get something figured out, I’d get blown out of the water by something else.” by Steve CharlesPhotos by Nolan Calisch Snow was falling in rural Montgomery County a few days before...
Duke We often talk of friendships and the bonds that friends, true friends, share. I’ve never seen bonds stronger than those between Duke and his family. by Tom Runge Duke. AKA “Duker”. AKA “Bubba.” Part German Shepherd, part “dog”, and part...
The Fixed Stars What can age not steal from us? Photos and text by David Krohne Age is a thief. It steals the present tense. I was a mountaineer. I was an endurance athlete. I was a wilderness traveler. I was an outdoorsman. I was a professor of ecology. These...
One Fish Each fish tells a different story . . . Photos and text by David Krohne More than a million salmon came up the Columbia River this year. That’s far more than in 2021 but far less than the 16 million that entered the river every year before we did our best...
“Orion” by D-Squared My older brother Don wrote this song (and he and my sister, Deb Gessner perform it here) to celebrate the birth of our little brother Mike’s first grandson, Orion. Mike only got to see Orion in an ultrasound capture, a photo my niece showed him a...
