by Tele | Nov 18, 2013 | Reading & Writing
“I feel anxious.” A redundant admission, if Joel glances from the winding country highway to my white-knuckled grip on my travel mug. “What if they don’t like me? What am I going to ask in this meeting?” Five months earlier, I’d approached the...
by Tele | Nov 8, 2013 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Family, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
For the most part, I’ve been relying on my Facebook page to promote the books I’m currently loving, the writers who inspire me, the paragraphs so fist-to-my-mouth moving that I want to pass them along to you like the gifts they are. An easy, immediate...
by Tele | Oct 16, 2013 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
You know when you have news to share, and maybe it’s nothing huge, but still you decide just to sit on it until a better time and place? And as you’re waiting, your originally not-such-a-big-deal news unfolds to reveal a new layer, and another, until...
by Tele | Oct 15, 2013 | Culture, Environment, F/V Nerka
Often, the most important thing you can do for yourself is also the hardest thing. That was Cap’n J’s experience last spring, when his doctor took one look at his knee’s MRI and shook his head. “You’re not getting on a boat this summer.” Those eight...
by Tele | Sep 21, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Salmon Trolling, Women in Fishing
When you leave the boat you’ve called home for the past three months, you will need two dock carts. Ridiculous as clowns spilling from a tiny car, bulging backpacks emerge from the corners of your 7 by 2 by 2 ½ foot bunk, the one space...
