by Tele | May 29, 2023 | Reading & Writing
Hi dear ones – Been a long while, friends. I hope you’re well. Last time we talked, it was to mourn Halcyon the Destroyer, Team Nerka’s too-bold-for-this-world adventure cat who left us too soon. Today I’m back to share...
by Tele | Feb 19, 2017 | Commercial Fishing, Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We’re less than a week away from Oregon’s annual FisherPoets Gathering, friends! The highlight of our winter, FisherPoets is always special — this one especially so, as we celebrate the 20th year of commercial fishing women and men from across...
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,...
