Posts filed under "Talking Story"
School daze update
I’ve left a few messages at the school, but haven’t received any response. I suppose on Monday I’ll start calling the main office. Meanwhile, I’ve been looking up some things about the corporation that runs this school (and others in the area) – “corporation,” not school district – and I’ve been going through the curriculum […]
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School daze
“What year is this?” That line is taken from a message I got from a friend of mine who lives in the Midwest and whose child’s “5th grade Science class teacher told the children that global warming is a lie and was made up so people could make a lot of money off of it.” […]
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Copper Creek
From where I’m sitting, I can see the light slowly bleeding out of the day. It’s about 5:00pm, the end of the evening at this time of year, the beginning of what will be a cold winter’s night. The remains of the sunset are a wash of dark orange and red, gradually fading to indigo. […]
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Declining baselines; A Slow fading of the light
The idea of declining baselines is something that, while we are slow to see it and loathe to acknowledge it, we all instinctively know for what it is. It doesn’t take us long to understand the implications once we do give the idea some consideration. The concept is simply this: over time, constantly worsening environmental […]
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RIP Marmot
I found out this past week that the Bellevue Marmot store is going to be shutting its doors. It’s not like anyone couldn’t see it coming… it had been a topic of discussion for years among those of us who had worked in the Marmot empire at some point. It’s the kind of job you […]
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The Roadless Coast
“The edges of any landscape,” writes Barry Lopez in his landmark book, Arctic Dreams, “quicken an observer’s expectations. That attraction to borders, to the earth’s twilit places, is part of the shape of human curiosity.” When the border in question is the nebulous zone between land and ocean, the resulting curiosity is even more intense. […]
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Overused words, Part 2
Adventure ad·ven·ture [ad-ven-cher] noun 1. an exciting or very unusual experience. 2. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit of adventure. 3. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome. Another word that has been trotted out more times than a carnival donkey is the word “adventure.” There is nothing I can […]
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Rules
When did all these rules start getting posted everywhere? It may be nostalgia on my part but I seem to remember it wasn’t always like this. How many times do you have to hear the word “No,” before your creativity is stunted permanently? How is it possible to maintain a positive attitude in the face […]
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Overused words, Part 1
sus·tain·a·ble [suh-stey-nuh-buh l] adjective 1. pertaining to a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques that allow for continual reuse. 2. able to be maintained or kept going, as an action or process. If this one isn’t on your list of words that has been neutered by overuse, then you haven’t been paying […]
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A Fine Line
In matters of creative non-fiction, it is often hard to quantify which is the dominant factor: “Creative” or “Non-fiction.” There are those who say that the more a topic is personalized and garnished with the observer’s point of view, the less it can be seen as objective. There is an agenda here, they say, and […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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