Overflow

I saw a bucket of yeast at the brewery last week and I thought it looked like joy. Not because beer is delicious (though it is), but because it could not be contained. As the beer fermented in a giant tank, the yeast dribbled from a pipe into the five-gallon bucket, bubbled and pulsed like […]

The Weird World of Amazon Book Reviews

I have a personal policy: never read the comments. And when my book was published last year, I quickly learned that I probably didn’t want to take note of the reader reviews at Amazon either.  Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love hearing from readers. Nothing makes me happier than receiving a personal note from someone […]

Puddleglyphs

It was over 100 degrees several days this past week, where I live in Washington, and now we’re drowning in smoke. Needless to say, I’m craving something clean and cold. Maybe you are too? In which case, I pulled this from the archives for both of us: Sometimesin the springout walkingI get the feelthat the […]

Spring rain

First snowmelt, and a month of dry, but the rain finally comes, and everything is flowers, for a time.