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A blue state with deep red ironies

Yes, Virginia, there is Virtue in the world (still)

Knock, knock

Critters

America, behind the moon

Gobsmacked

Let's take a walk

Two phone calls and a blow to the head

Wide awake in Seattle

Democracy dies in staff meetings

Wrens (and friends)

Thursday's postcard, and The crocodile in the recliner

Tuesday's postcard, and Al French in the PFAS corn maze

Saturday's postcard, Ramiro's questions and stories from a tumultuous week

Sunday's postcard, and Florida, a postscript

Wednesday's postcard, and Time in a small bottle

Tuesday's postcard, a Respite in the scablands and addressing journalism's Achilles heel

Sunday's postcard, and How the truth about Trumpism is (finally) finding its shoes

Wednesday's postcard, and the Year of the Cat

Summer fare

Thursday's postcard, and flickers of progress in citizen oversight of the West Plains "forever chemical" fiasco

Sunday's postcard, and how Donald Trump corralled the evangelicals on abortion

Wednesday's postcard, and about last night...

Tuesday's postcard, and how the threat of the Spokane Airport's groundwater contamination is coming into focus

Friday's postcard, and the cracks in Al French's looking glass

Sunday's postcard, and the Stories beneath the story

Sunday's postcard, An apology, two struggles and three remarkable women

Tuesday's postcard, and a quiver of favorite photographs

Sunday's postcard, and a Midsummer night's gasp...

Thursday's postcard, and how an exalted sociopath broke journalism

Monday's postcard, and Israel's relentless war on journalism

Sunday's postcard, and a return to the Redband realm

Friday's postcard, and a prayer on the winds of time

Wednesday's postcard, and Kamala Harris's voice, and choice

Monday's postcard, and the other fires that keep me awake at night

This weekend's postcard, and Kamala Harris v. two men at their worst

Tuesday's postcard, and a visit to the "Hoh Formation"

Sunday's postcard, and Rupert Murdoch on his road to perdition

Thursday's postcard, and the other side of Wallula Gap

Tuesday's postcard, and how the world changed in 48 hours

Sunday's postcard, Of tide pools, trains, Joe Biden's announced departure, and a year that feels eerily familiar

Sunday's postcard, A week away to beat the heat, and a Rhubarb sampler

Friday's postcard, a belated apology, and postscripts to the corruptions of the Roberts Court

Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the corruptions of our American Dreams (Part 2 of 2)

Clarence Thomas, the Roberts Court, and the corruptions of our American Dreams (Part 1 of 2)

Friday's postcard, and Brian makes a splash

Wednesday's postcard, and a Hard-working bird with colors from the sky

Today's postcard, and The Court of King Trump

Sunday's postcard, and Fast times in Warbler World

Friday's postcard, and the misery of Joe Biden's face plant

Thursday's postcard, and the scenic route to Pasco

Tuesday's postcard, and striking the match on the culture wars

Sunday's postcard, and the unbookable flights of spring

Thursday's postcard, and a push for action and accountability from Al French's latest challenger

Tuesday's postcard, and a struggle to rescue the truth

Thursday's postcard, plus wings and streams

Tuesday's postcard, and Al French in the lion's den

Saturday's postcard, and a very curious noise in the thicket

Friday's postcard, and Donald Trump's 35th felony

Wednesday's postcard, and how Donald Trump salutes the fallen

A Memorial Day postcard, with a salute to my father, and the great uncles I never met

Sunday's postcard, and visions from the peak days of spring

Friday's postcard, and Standing-room-only triage on West Plains water pollution

Tuesday's postcard, and Florida weatherman strikes back

Sunday's postcard, and the world of our children, for sale

Wednesday's postcard, and between the rocks and a hard place

Mothers' Day bouquets, and vivid colors in the sky

Friday's postcard, and the Spokane airport (finally) hands its shoes to state regulators

Joe Biden, Gaza, and American moral injury

A Bloomsday postcard, and updated field notes from toxic water storms on the West Plains

Thursday's postcard, and glimpses of an unfolding spring

Tuesday's postcard, and the rupture of Republican democracy

Friday's postcard, and the elixir of my sister's humor

A trail of blossoms, and a sin in search of a name

A (brief) Rhubarb retreat

Pacing the twilight zones...

Stormy Mondays

Vortex of the patriarchy

The Swan Lakes

Friday's postcard, and how I met Strom Thurmond

The herons of February

A major milestone on the West Plains

American Koyaanisqatsi

Navalny

Ecology gives the Spokane airport one more try...

History's next lesson, from the drought in Panama

From Victims to Victories

A Year of the (somewhat) Daily Rhubarb

Blind in the worst way, at the worst time

A Postscript on "The Preposterous Spokane Flood"

Knee-deep in Bretzland

Sunday's postcard, and a 17-ton "erratic" from the cosmos

Friday's postcard, and An Invitation to a Live Presentation of "The Preposterous Spokane Flood"

Thursday's postcard, and the Ballad of E. Jean Carroll

Larry Kudlow's Ice Age

Sunday's postcard, a grassroots group's website re-boot, and why Brian Stelter still matters

Freezing fingers

Wednesday's postcard, and a hunger for a deeper sort of news

MLK Jr. Day, and a riveting, new local documentary

Close Encounters with the Mirror World, Part 3

Saturday's postcard, and frozen field notes

Close Encounters with the Mirror World, Part 2

Close Encounters with the Mirror World, Part 1

A daughter on the brink

The insurrection that is still being televised...

West Plains, 'forever chemicals'--to date

How Joe Biden Lost Our Kids