by Tele | Jan 20, 2017 | Culture, Hooked Favorites, Reading & Writing
I was fourteen years old when a man grabbed me by the pussy. We were in the checkout line of our Pacific Northwest town’s Payless drugstore. It was early evening, one week before Valentine’s Day, and I was buying a cassette tape as...
by Tele | Nov 2, 2016 | Reading & Writing
Twelve years ago I went fishing to save my life. I begged a six-week sabbatical from the non-profit where I ran a dinner program and trolled alleys for young people in crisis, asking for a week at sea for every year I’d spent on...
by Tele | Feb 16, 2016 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
It’s almost time, friends! Oregon’s nineteenth annual FisherPoets Gathering is less than two weeks away, with storytellers, musicians, and poets readying to flood Astoria this February 26 – 28. It’s an immersion into the authentic, captains and...
by Tele | Jan 9, 2016 | Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
On December 15th, six hours after submitting Hooked’s final revision, I lost my voice. Literally. All these years a devoted disciple of the “tell your story” gospel, and, upon surrendering that story for my editor’s review,...
by Tele | Oct 19, 2015 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
Last June, my editor’s response to Draft #2 arrived on our doorstep just as we were preparing to head north. If there can be a good time or place to face the fact that your book needs major revisions, I found mine in the Nerka’s pilot seat, alone on my...
