by Tele | Apr 19, 2013 | National News
I’ve been spending some time off-line lately, friends. Asking my housemate to disconnect the internets before she goes to work, telling myself I don’t know how to plug it back in. Apparently I need trickery like that to write a book. Monday...
by Tele | Mar 22, 2013 | Hooked Favorites, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
(Hang on, sweeties… We’re going to take the scenic drive.) On February 22, after meticulously shepherding my proposal through revision after revision, my agent Pamela pronounced it ready to shop. “Let’s go,” she wrote. Time passed in a dizzying...
by Tele | Mar 20, 2013 | Reading & Writing, Salmon Trolling
Birthdays are important to me, but I’ve been slipping lately. Just last week, I kept a close eye on the calendar, eager to call my dad on his high holy day. And I did call him – only to learn that I’d circled a date two days past due. Oops....
by Tele | Mar 14, 2013 | Culture, Reading & Writing
I’ve been thinking about what it means to turn our experiences into words to be shared with others. Also, the disingenuousness of describing this process as “sharing.” Almost all of the writers I know hope to see their words valued not only in...
by Tele | Mar 8, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Salmon Trolling
One afternoon last August, the Nerka bucked hard into a steep Westerly chop. Struggling to keep my balance while flushing the blood out of a gutted king salmon, I groused under my breath. Only work half the year, watch whales, pretty much just...
