Sitemap - 2023 - Rhubarb Salon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sunday's postcard, and Part IV of UFOs
Wednesday's postcard, Trumpapalooza, and where is Hunter S. Thompson when we need him most?
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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