Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

If you visit LA by Sept. 14, 2014, you may want to see the Expressionism Exhibit at LACMA. Wear your crash helmet, as narrow lanes, fast ca...

Thanks to Festival Writer for publishing my new poem "Enlightenment for $19.99" about Jungian psychology, real and imaginary Pos...

A fat 14-inch trout fresh from the sea. Also Known As Heaven Creek There is almost nothing electrician's tape and Maxima lead...

Thanks to The Release Literary Magazine for publishing my poem "The Fish Who Swallowed Time" in their inaugural issue.  T...

Thanks to Bonnie for taking this photo and emailing it. I was meditatively casting over seagrass two mornings ago on the west side of Wh...

Two coastal summer steelhead I caught four days ago. Surf perch add variety to your fishing.  On my way home to Whidbey, an inla...

I spent July 3 through July 6 as a Friends of William Stafford Scholar at the "Speak Truth to Power" FOR (Fellowship of Reconcilia...

10 pound Summer Steelhead Tiger Lily or Lilium Columbianum named after the mighty Columbia River Here's a summer steelhead ...

Spring Chinook I caught yesterday. "Columbia River Tarpon" also known as shad.  These guys are fun to catch in the afternoo...

[Sperm Whale] by Archibald Thorburn, 1860–1935 | Public domain in United States, via Wikimedia Commons I know Rumi wrote, " The ...

Many thanks to the powerful Alaskan writer Marybeth Holleman for reposting my fishing essay from August 2013 along with a new poem from ...

I caught this mermaid while trolling off Orcas Island.  Suz' people go into the water to catch salmon with their teeth which seems mor...

November The Dream of Seven Tails (featured at  The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, an...

One of the best spring salmon fishermen on a river I visit gave me "the speech" to get out of trouble with a girlfriend.  "I...

"Thinking About AWP 2014 in Seattle" (click if interested in a poet's perspective)

Some of the poems were written at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. I recall a scene in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont ...

Photo by John Campbell. Click photo to see text. Four summers ago I taught a writing class at Columbia Gorge Community College in The Da...

                                                          Here is my first spring chinook of April 2014.                              ...

I know there is some kind of synchronicity in the universe.  The Hindu concept of the Net of Indra was right about that.  Not far from The R...

  The good folks at The Raven Chronicles invited me to sign my books at their J29 table on Thursday, February 27, 2014, from 3 p.m. to...