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The Olympics from the Chuckanuts
This view comes from along the Chuckanut ridge off of Cleator Road. Overlooking Samish Bay and Rosario Strait, you can see the Olympic Mountains. A cold, cloudy December morning didn’t stop us from traversing this piece of the Chuckanut Mountain ridge. Chuckanut is an interpretation of a Lummi word meaning “Long beach far from a […]
Clair de Lune
A sublime walk up on the mountain. You can force the meditation scene, the peacock feather ceremony that’s supposed to make it all better. The search for the sublime is rendered impossible when you seek it out. But sometimes the weather cooperates, a slight glitch in the system makes it warmer on the mountain than […]
Sumas Mountain Lost Lake Expedition: A Beautiful Post-apocalyptic Wasteland on the Northern Frontier
We’d made several attempts at Lost Lake. Following the reports of fishermen, hunters, hikers, and Ken Wilcox, author of Hiking Whatcom County, we joyrode up and down the logging roads off South Pass Road looking for the mysteries of Sumas Mountain. Rich in a natural and a people’s history of Whatcom County and a little […]
A review from a veterinarian
The book is called “Pick-Up Dogs” (Click here to buy the book) and it is a half academic, half personal journey into what our relationship with dogs tells us about our relationship with the world. Do we try and tame our pets and the world to our every whim, or do we open ourselves up to […]
A visit to the Animals as Natural Therapy farm
Today I went out to the Animals as Natural Therapy (http://www.animalsasnaturaltherapy.org/) farm, which is about 15 minutes from downtown Bellingham. This is a place I have been meaning to visit for a long time as I indirectly mention the organization in my book, but I have yet to make it out to their digs because […]
Village Books and an Economic History of Independent Booksellers
Village Books in Fairhaven, a historic part of Bellingham, is the center of life and a community meeting point for the area’s residents and book lovers. To say that Village Books is at the heart of Fairhaven, if not Bellingham, would not be hyperbole, and today in Professor Hart Hodges’s MBA microeconomics class at the […]
Murakami’s cats, Bolaño’s dogs, translation, and the next big thing
A while ago I became obsessed with a writer from Chile, who lived for a time in Mexico, and spent his last years in Spain: Robert Bolaño. I discovered him while living in Barcelona, and it turned out that the small village that he was living in, Blanes, was just a few miles north on […]
November in the North Cascades
November brought a dusting of snow up in the mountains. The first signs of winter began at about mile post marker 40 on the Mt. Baker highway, somewhere around 2200 feet up. I didn’t bring enough clothing with me. No gloves. I was still wearing my autumn hat and hadn’t brought out the full winter, […]
For every book ordered, I will donate a dollar to the shelter of your choice
For every copy of Pick-Up Dogs ordered, I will donate a dollar to the animal shelter of your choice. Just post a comment to this post, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed with the name of the shelter you would like your dollar donated to. Click here to buy the book
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! For every book sold during November, I will donate a dollar to the animal rescue organization or shelter of your choice. Just post it on the Pick-up Dogs Facebook page after your purchase. Click here to buy the book Hard working therapy dog checks out the scene of Halloween morning. Skeletons and candy […]