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| I am a travel, adventure and personal essay writer. I have also written more SEO copy, website content and corporate communications material than you can shake a stick at. I am working on a book about my year as a go go dancer in Greece. I also publish a little magazine about whales once a year. Contact me if you want something said just right. | |
Halibut Fishing on the Coast
Oregon Coast(March/April 2012)
Halibut aren't pretty like salmon. They don't fight like tuna. But they've got a taste worth working for...
SF Gate: Mexico Mix January 31, 2012
Considering that weddings are often your one chance to bring all the important people in your life together, it's unfortunate that the big event is often a dizzying, stressful blur with little time to spend with anyone. A destination wedding in Mexico is a great way to slow it all down and spend quality time with your loved ones. It's warm down there, relaxing and beautiful. There are comfortable accommodations for every budget and taste. Delicious food and drinks are abundant and easy on your wallet.
Oregon Coast (May/June 2011)
When a tuna hits, it feels like you've got Lance Armstrong's thigh on the line.
Northwest Travel (March/April 2011)
Visitors flock to the coast to view migrating gray whales during winter and spring, but you can see whales all summer in the waters around Depoe Bay.
52perfectdays.com
You lean in for your kiss. It opens up its blowhole and, “Whooosh!” you’ve been baptized with whale breath. Consider yourself initiated into the church of the whale.
View from the Bartop
Greece: A Love Story: Women Write about the Greek Experience (Seal Press: 2007)
"I was not meant to dance on countertops for a living,” I said to myself as I surveyed the cheering drunks below, and smashed my glass to the floor....
Women Reinvented: True Stories of Empowerment and Change (LaChance Publishing: 2010)
The ad read: Vikings Wanted: Tahoe Ski Resort Seeks Tall, Ruthless Scandinavians For Ad Campaign...
VoiceCatcher (LuLu: 2007)
Eventually, my outer thigh became a kind of no man's land where he was permitted to rest one fingertip, but that was it....
Orion Magazine, June 23, 2010
I’m a landlocked mermaid here in Portland, Oregon. Yes, the landscape is green and lush. And the people are wonderful. It’s a foodie heaven and culturally rich for a city its size. But after fifteen years of constant tides in my periphery, I never thought I would leave the ocean again.
Imitation Fruit, Issue #5 (2009)
Kiera is the kind of seven year old who goes tearing down a hill on a broken bicycle, crashes, comes up spitting teeth and blood and says, “Whew! That was an experience.” So when that scorpion stung her, she was more pissed off than scared. “That thing bit me!” she said, and squished it with a flip-flop.
Meanwhile, the rest of us freaked out.
Northwest Travel (May/June 2010)
One summer day in the San Juan Islands, orcas gathered near shore for soulful songs by First Nations performer and a choir from Seattle.
52perfectdays.com
A perfect day on the North Shore of Kauai
Whoosh! (Flying Pig Productions, 2008)
Joseph and I track down one of the world’s experts on blue whales, Fernando Arcas, and spend an unforgettable day on the water with him in Baja.
Whoosh! (Flying Pig Productions, 2008)
Now that the orcas were in plain sight, the Tlingets resumed their drumming and singing....just moments later, a 6-foot high pointed male orca fin rose up directly in front of us.
Moe Bowstern, Ed., XtraTuf #6: The Greenhorn Issue (2010) [Publication Available In Print Only]
The Sun Magazine: Readers Write (Issue 402: June 2009) [Publication Available In Print Only]
(Presented at the Fisher Poet's Annual Gathering: 2006)
I land myself a gig as a deckhand on a gillnetting boat. Trouble ensues.
Rain Magazine (2007) [Publication Available In Print Only]
Stockwell, Shelley. Denial Is Not A River In Egypt. (Creativity Unlimited, 2003).
The Ever Dancing Muse. 1996.
• The K List: Things I Like, Don't Like + News and Other Animals
• My Examiner Column (>500 word generally whale related articles)
• Open Salon (<500 word stories about all kind of things)
• Kat's Ass Fan Club: All Tush Stories, All the Time
All the others on the cramped barge were asleep when the Guarani woman next to me finally spoke: “Aren’t you lonely? Why aren’t you afraid?”
I fulfill my viking model duties at Granlibakken, a ski resort in Lake Tahoe, with two other real modern day vikings.
It starts with a group e-mail: "okay. have i got a deal for you. i've procured a 10 cd player with great speakers and have no music. so. here's the deal: you send me music, i DHL you fish..." A horny pirate, the wacky birthday fairy, uppity orca scientists and the little dictator join the mix. It ends in tears.
Let’s all go ahead and be very very soft. Let’s speak softly and walk softly and hold each other softly and think soft thoughts about soft things. Let’s all be big softies and have lots of give and wear soft clothing that makes people want to touch us.
I make peace with my competitive nature, deal with election anxiety and figure a few things out
