by Tele | Feb 28, 2015 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing
It’s a magical day in Astoria, Oregon: sun on the sidewalks, festive chop on the Columbia. I’m tucked in the Blue Scorcher Bakery (try the cardamom rolls), an introvert on glorious overload, trying to steal an hour of quiet time to recharge. Red...
by Tele | Jun 25, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
53⁰23.596’ N 129⁰52.095’ W 11:15 pm, Principe Channel, British Columbia Dusk tames the ocean. Dims it to liquid mercury, a silver sheet with yellow threads peeking from the folds. My favorite kind of ocean. The hillsides bracketing this two-mile...
by Tele | Feb 1, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We spend all summer moving through the salmon season, yet September always sneaks up on me. It lunges out from where it’s been hiding, hunched behind the corner of August. I jump every time. The end of my residency with the North Cascades...
by Tele | Dec 19, 2013 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing
Hi friends – A month into my time with the North Cascades Institute, I’m thinking that a writer’s residency is something like a fishing season. As on the Nerka, I rely on routine here in Dogwood 2. Instead of getting the gear in the water...
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 | 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...
