Since 2008, I've been writing a weekly column for the local newspaper. Called "Valley Life," the column I write features folksy small-town stories that don't qualify as "real" news. I'm slowly adding below some of the columns that readers mentioned particularly liking. Occasionally I also write feature stories for the Methow Valley News; you can find some of them in my People and Places tabs (or you will be able to, once I add them). You can read most of the Winthrop Valley Life columns from the past 18 years HERE.

Predators, potholes, poultry, sleigbells, snowstorms: all the highlights of country livin' make an appearance in these columns.

Our paths through life are paved with milestones--some joyful, some devastating, some inevitable.

Increasingly, summers here are threaded with wildfire. Anticipation, reality, and/or aftermath occupy our minds, more each year.
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