Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

Sharing the Love for Hooked’s Friends

by | May 2, 2012 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing | 10 comments

The har­bor wi-fi’s been coöper­a­tive this week, keep­ing me dis­tract­ed with all kinds of inter­net good­ness – includ­ing some friends’ achievements!

Long­time read­ers have already heard me rave about Cami Ost­man. We worked togeth­er in Seattle’s home­less youth ser­vices; 10 years lat­er, our paths merged in the Belling­ham writ­ing com­mu­ni­ty. Author of the inspir­ing mem­oir Sec­ond Wind and found­ing mem­ber of Red Wheel­bar­row Writ­ers, Cami’s a gen­er­ous men­tor and beloved friend.  Yes­ter­day, she gave a fan­tas­tic inter­view on ABC’s show The Rev­o­lu­tion, dis­cussing her own inner rev­o­lu­tion of run­ning marathons on all sev­en con­ti­nents. Watch “Run­ning Across the Globe” here.

Fel­low fish­er­man writer Jen Pick­ett scored an inter­view with PBS! Jen’s a pio­neer: when she was only 28 years old, she became one of the only women to own and oper­ate her own boat on the leg­endary Cop­per Riv­er Flats. She’s also a mem­oirist, a Fish­er Poet, an adven­tur­er, and a plea­sure to know. Read her inter­view to learn about her 20 years at sea, how com­mer­cial fish­ing has changed in that time, and which Mup­pet she’d hire as crew.

Those of you in the Seat­tle – Van­cou­ver B.C. area, I rec­om­mend mark­ing 6 pm, May 22, on your cal­en­dars. Lau­ra Kalpakian’s Mem­o­ry into Mem­oir stu­dents will have a pub­lic read­ing at Bellingham’s beloved inde­pen­dent book­store, Vil­lage Books. This event con­cludes three quar­ters of exhaus­tive writ­ing, cri­tiquing, and revis­ing. I had the priv­i­lege of spend­ing fall and win­ter with these writ­ers. They’re a tremen­dous­ly gift­ed, coura­geous group, telling extreme­ly diverse life sto­ries. If you’re in the area, please go, lis­ten to their sto­ries, and give them some extra love for me.

Big hugs to all — I’m so proud of the whole bunch of you!

And you, friends? Any­thing won­der­ful going on that you want to share?

10 Comments

  1. Julie Farrar
    Julie Farrar on May 2, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    I heard about your friend, Cami. That kind of chal­lenge is beyond me but I love to hear about what moti­vates peo­ple to these feats. Noth­ing much to report right now from my end. Thurs­day will mark the third day of my May blo­gath­on post­ings. I guess we can say blog­ging three days in a row is an accom­plish­ment for me. Glad to know your inter­net is working.

    • Tele
      Tele on May 3, 2012 at 9:46 am

      Your May blo­gath­on DEFINITELY counts as an accom­plish­ment, Julie! I’m so impressed with the con­tent and qual­i­ty of what you’ve been able to pro­duce every day. And your daugh­ter’s recent run­ning made me think of Cami’s expe­ri­ence. I’m more in your camp… Hear­ing what run­ning has meant for oth­ers has made me curi­ous about it, enough to tin­ker with a cou­ple short runs this win­ter, but I admit I haven’t real­ly “got­ten it” yet. My favorite part is going for dough­nuts after the run is over!

  2. Cami Ostman
    Cami Ostman on May 2, 2012 at 9:18 pm

    Tele, I had drinks with Pam and Lau­ra tonight and we talked about how much we miss you! I’m glad you’re doing what you love, but I’m more glad you’ll come back to us at the end of the sea­son! xo

    • Tele
      Tele on May 3, 2012 at 9:50 am

      Imag­in­ing the three of you out, ener­get­i­cal­ly talk­ing writ­ing with wine/beer in hand, gives me a great big smile and warm heart. Save a spot and a cup of tea, and I’ll join you in about 5 months! *hugs*

  3. Claire 'Word by Word'
    Claire 'Word by Word' on May 2, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    Thanks for shar­ing your inspir­ing friends, its always won­der­ful to hear the amaz­ing things peo­ple who are pas­sion­ate about some­thing are achiev­ing. Total inspiration.

  4. patriciasands
    patriciasands on May 3, 2012 at 6:11 am

    Tele, thank you for these fab­u­lous links. I just watched Cami’s excel­lent vis­it on ABC and read Jen’s inter­view. Both ter­rif­ic! This is the beau­ty of connections,isn’t it? Won­der­ful infor­ma­tion shar­ing. Coin­ci­den­tal­ly, the main char­ac­ter in my cur­rent WIP is a woman sud­den­ly divorced who search­es for new mean­ing in her life so Cami’s inter­view real­ly con­nect­ed with some of the thoughts of my char­ac­ter. Do you think it would be appro­pri­ate for me to ask if I might fea­ture her video on one of my posts? I’m going to link this post of yours to my blog as well. SO GOOD!

  5. Wendy Welch
    Wendy Welch on May 3, 2012 at 6:19 am

    Such fun y’all are hav­ing over there on the West Coast! Rock on, women!

    • Tele
      Tele on May 3, 2012 at 10:08 am

      We ARE hav­ing fun, Wendy, and you’re so invit­ed to this par­ty! I’ve been prat­tling on about your book to a whole string of Sitkans. Will you have a book trail­er that I can post here? 

      (Friends: Wendy’s book, The Lit­tle Book­store of Big Stone Gap: A Mem­oir of Friend­ship, Com­mu­ni­ty, and the Uncom­mon Plea­sure of a Good Book” is avail­able for pre-order on Ama­zon. I’m so look­ing for­ward to curl­ing up with a copy, and sus­pect many of you would love her adven­ture of cre­at­ing con­nec­tions between very dif­fer­ent peo­ple, one book at a time.)

  6. Tele
    Tele on May 3, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Hon­est­ly, Patri­cia, you and Julie are two of the folks who’ve real­ly mod­eled infor­ma­tion shar­ing for me. I admire the way you both pro­mote oth­ers and fos­ter con­nec­tions like these! I’m glad Cami’s inter­view res­onat­ed with your char­ac­ter… I sus­pect that she’d be delight­ed by your inclusion!

  7. pickfish
    pickfish on May 22, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    This is a great idea, Tele. I’ll have to do it soon on my blog. 

    Thanks for the shout out. Where’s you own shout out? I just saw your mug in Pacif­ic Fish­ing! I think it was last mon­th’s issue. Rock fish on, sista!

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. Taking a week to breathe … « Patricia Sands' Blog - [...] http://nerkasalmon.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/sharing-the-love-for-hookeds-friends/ [...]