Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

Here is a big guy I caught on an Oregon coastal river.  When I was a kid fishing in the same spot, a giant one, maybe 60 or 70 pou...

I had a good 6 mile walk along the sea today remembering my Starfisher days in Oregon.  Very soon, I will be back there eight months a ...

On my daily walks along the sea in San Diego, young ones sport neon-bright tattoos and hair streaks like they crashed into a giant snow co...

Thanks to Larry Kerschner, editor of Pacific Call , and Ellen Finkelstein, organizer for the Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliatio...

Thanks to editor Crystal S. Gibbins of Split Rock Review for publishing my "Manifesto from Poet on a Dying Planet."   This onlin...

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...