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November 21, A blue state with deep red ironies

November 18, Yes, Virginia, there is Virtue in the world (still)

November 15, A House call, of sorts…

November 13, Critters (photo essay)

November 10, America, behind the moon

November 7, Gobsmacked

November 5, Let’s take a Walk (photo essay)

November 3, Two phone calls and a blow to the head

October 30, Wide awake in Seattle

October 28, Democracy dies in staff meetings

October 26, Wrens (and friends) (photo essay)

October 24, The crocodile in the recliner

October 22, Al French in the PFAS corn maze

October 19, Ramiro’s question and stories from a tumultuous week

October 13, Florida, a postscript

October 10, Time in a small bottle

October 1, A Respite in the Scablands, and addressing Journalism’s Achilles Heel

September 25, The Year of the Cat

September 22, Summer Fare (photo essay)

September 19, Flickers of progress in citizen oversight on the West Plains “forever chemical” fiasco.

September 15, How Donald Trump corralled the evangelicals on abortion

September 11, About last night…

September 10, How the threat of the Spokane airport’s groundwater contamination is coming into focus

September 6, The cracks in Al French’s looking glass

September 1, The story beneath the stories

August 25, An apology, two struggles and three remarkable women

August 22, A quiver of favorite photographs

August 18, A mid-summer night’s gasp

August 15, How an exalted sociopath broke journalism

August 12, Israel’s relentless war on journalism

August 11, A return to the Redband realm (photo feature)

August 9, A prayer on the winds of time

August 7, Kamala Harris’s voice, and choice

August 5, The other fires that keep me awake at night

August 3, Kamala Harris v. Two men behaving badly

July 30, A visit to the “Hoh Formation”

July 28, Rupert Murdock, on his road to perdition

July 23, How the world changed in 48 hours

July 21, Of tide pools, trains, Joe Biden’s announced departure, and a year that feels eerily familiar.

July 14, A week away to beat the heat, and a Rhubarb sampler

July 12, A belated apology, and postscripts to the corruptions of the Roberts Court

•July 10, Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the Corruption of our American Dreams, Part 2 of 2 (The Reckoning)

•July 8, Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the Corruption of our American Dreams, Part 1 of 2 (The Betrayal)

•July 5, The coolest moose in town

•July 3, Hard working birds with colors from the sky (photo feature)

•July 2, The Court of King Trump