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Coffee with that?

Opie and the bully

A timely correction...

A Xmas postcard, and a loose pile of family & friends

A Christmas eve postcard, and a flood of great stories

Al French and the "forever chemicals"

Sunday's postcard, and a peek ahead to 2024

Wednesday's postcard, and solstice photon therapy

Monday's postcard, and a sale on frozen favorites

Sunday's postcard, and a progress report on the investigation into the West Plains' toxic water fiasco

Thursday's postcard, and Bart Gellman's prescient reporting

Tuesday's postcard, and landscape therapy

Sunday's postcard, and reckoning with the venom of Trumpism

Wednesday's postcard, and how to find the austere beauty of the scablands, on Main Avenue, starting Friday

Monday's postcard, and why Central Washington University's Nick Zentner is a national treasure

Thanksgiving postcards, and hope in hard times...

Tuesday's postcard, and a cleansing breath for all sides in the Gaza conflict

Sunday's postcard, and stepping into frozen...

Wednesday's postcard, and how America gets delivered to Gaza

Friday's postcard, and a modest buffet of basalt

Sunday's postcard, and a gallery of tightly-squeezed November light

This weekend's postcard, and a wake up call from Heather Cox Richardson

Tuesday's postcard, and what a Seattle Times investigation reveals about the poisoned groundwater west of Spokane

This weekend's postcard, and the new tragedies of a war that wouldn't wait

Thursday's postcard, and meetings with moose...

Tuesday's postcard, and the courage of Ezra Klein

Sunday's postcard, and celebrating Fani Willis

Friday's postcard, and an invitation to the Rhubarb Skies photography store

Wednesday's postcard, and the continuing insurrection in our midst

Tuesday's postcard, and how Washington embraced geologist J Harlen Bretz

Monday's postcard, and field notes from the last mile of Deep Creek

Friday's featured photo, and billions of other clues to the catastrophe that delivers Spokane's water

Thursday's postcard, and the piece I didn't write today

Tuesday's postcard, and a look back at some wildly beautiful swims in the Spokane River

Monday's postcard, and a walk in the woods

Friday's photo, how a good photo happens, and a special offer for subscribers, or those who'd like to be

Thursday's postcard, and big stories in an upside-down world

Thursday's postcard, brief notes, and photographic breaths of autumnal air

Wednesday's postcard, and coping with the surreal nature of climate change, and humans...

Tuesday's postcard, a brief respite and some notes on the door..

This weekend's postcard, and the story of my visits with the Spokane River's wild redbands

Friday's postcard, and wild birds of eastern Washington, giving voice

Wednesday's postcard, and the Spokane Airport's word-bomb response to disclosure of its PFAS contamination problem

Tuesday's postcard, and an open plea for Trestle Creek

Monday's postcard, and September light, Vol. III

This weekend's postcard, and the mountain gateway for the Northwest's Ice Age floods

Thursday's postcard, and September light, Vol.II

Tuesday's postcard, and September light, Vol. I

Sunday's postcard, and Love in the time of vertigo

Friday's postcard, and bring on the big wings

Thursday's postcard, and a field guide to the spectacular Drumheller Channels

Tuesday's postcard, and a couple things I didn't have to worry about today because I'm white

Sunday's postcard, and a day in, and out, of the river

Friday's postcard, and living in the shadow of a rogue state

Wednesday's postcard, and the state's wake up call for Spokane International Airport's water pollution problem

Sunday's postcard, and Part IV of UFOs

Wednesday's postcard, Trumpapalooza, and where is Hunter S. Thompson when we need him most?

Tuesday's postcard, and the trouble Spokane's airport may face for not disclosing its contaminated groundwater problem

This weekend's postcard, and tiny flyers

Wednesday's postcard, and the dances of bluebirds & flickers

Tuesday's postcard, and the days between the nightmares

This weekend's postcard, and the half anniversary of The Daily Rhubarb

Thursday's postcard, and a succinct, spot-on warning about the state of American politics

Wednesday's postcard, and 3 truths, from Republicans, in the historic Trump indictment

Tuesday's postcard, and the magic of sunlight, water, and ancient cobbles

Sunday's postcard, and UFOs Part III

Friday's postcard, and something a tad worse than stupid

Thursday's postcard, and a couple of postscripts

Wednesday's postcard, and some record heat for Steve Scalise...

Monday's postcard, and Part 2 of UFOs

Tuesday's postcard, and an invitation to join me Saturday at Dry Falls

Monday's postcard, and first and last light

Sunday's postcard, and Part 1 of UFOs

Friday's postcard, and a mid-summer floral foray

Thursday's postcard, and how professional golf found its moral hazard

Tuesday's postcard, & a visit to the 'Provenance' series, so far...

Monday's postcard, and a postscript on the hottest days in human history

Rough Landing

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Today's postcard, and a brief explanation for why we're cooking the planet

Wednesday's postcard, and Seven Surreal Landscapes

Tuesday's postcard, and the red, white and blues of the Fourth of July

Five months, 101 posts and more on the way (with your help)

Creatures large & small

Tuesday's postcard, and a postscript to Sunday's primer on the alarming "forever chemicals" threatening the nation's drinking water

Sunday's postcard, and a primer on the ominous, synthetic chemical that contaminates drinking water from coast to coast

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the hardy volunteers keeping an eye on Priest Lake

Monday's postcard, and a summer solstice field trip to a precious mountain lake

Sunday's postcard, an underwater cyclone, and an ancient, extinct sea creature on the West Plains

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Tuesday's postcard, and June days in the Palouse

Monday's postcard, and a postscript to Sunday's essay.

Sunday's postcard, and tending to the buffet of Trumpian lies

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a gallery of photo sketches in earth, water & sky

Tuesday's postcard, and the remarkable news story you didn't get to read yesterday

Monday's postcard, and field notes from Washington's remote southeastern corner...

Sunday's postcard, and scoping the "forever chemical" story on the West Plains

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a place every Washingtonian should visit, at least once

The countdown to a fine season of swims

A Rhubarb update and gentle request for your support

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and those quick things with yellow wings

Wednesday's postcard, and living on the perilous edge of "The Really Big One"

Tuesday's postcard, and a visit to the debt ceiling fiasco

Sunday's postcard, and Dreams of the Blue Dragonflies

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the mystique of Moses Coulee

Wednesday's postcard, and the long shadow of white supremacy and domestic terrorism

Tuesday's postcard, and the solace of distant places

A Mother's Day bouquet, and how you can support my work

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and how to find and appreciate Northrup Canyon

Wednesday's postcard, and hangin' with cliff-diving swallows

Tuesday's postcard, and a big story, illuminated by a compelling small story

Monday's postcard, and how to find beauty in the middle of nowhere

A Bloomsday postcard, and the thirty year cycle of shame with Clarence Thomas and his enablers

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and an essential, short detour on your way to, or from, Seattle

Wednesday's postcard. Our precarious hold on journalism ethics, and why it matters.

Tuesday's postcard, and one of the great shows on Earth

Monday's postcard, and how to find and appreciate a 'Bretz' hill

Sunday's postcard, and Spokane writer Don Cutler on why the darkest chapter in Washington history still matters

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, a brilliant flyer, and a problem on the West Plains

Wednesday's postcard, and other news

An Earth Day photo gallery

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Monday's postcard, the beautiful fury of the Devil's Toenail, and other favorites

Sunday's postcard, the path to Amarillo, and the courts' collapsing credibility on abortion

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, Linda Greenhouse, and the search for America

Wednesday's soaking postcard, and five favored landscapes

Today's postcard, Clarence Thomas, and The Third Cigar

An Easter postcard, being at the New Moon, and other joys

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute fiction

A dream-like photo, and my pen on The Inlander's new cover story

Moonstruck

Tuesday's postcard, and the day's honk of history

Today's postcard, and more flowers (of course)

Sunday's postcard, and a spring preview of some favorite wildflowers

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the unheeded warnings of the Fox News "Brain Room"

Today's postcard, a wild encounter, and where you can find me in April

A mother's cry in Nashville

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thurday's postcard, and a tribute to Cassidy Hutchinson

Wednesday's postcard, and a browser's guide to The Daily Rhubarb, so far

Tuesday's postcard, and Vol. 2 of some favorite, western rock outbursts

Sunday's postcard and visits, with camera, to some favorite western rock formations

A St. Patrick's Day postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and Ari Melber's surprising guest

An early wildflower, upcoming events, and a few favorite winter photos

Thursday's postcard, and a look back at Ellensburg's days of rage (1982)

Wednesday's postcard, and the paper trail behind a runaway truck of lies

Tuesday's postcard, a stardust postscript, and some Valentines

Ice Dances

The Geology of Us

Friday's postcard, and a preview for the week ahead.

Thursday's postcard and an introduction to the Washington Nukes series

Wednesday's postcard, and 8 minutes of scablands zen

Tuesday's postcard, and a visit with a most remarkable priest

Monday's postcard, February 6th

Sunday's postcard and an introduction to the Provenance project

Coming soon