Nothing say funny like scientific taxonomy humor! And there IS a plan afoot to reintroduce 80 Canadian fishers to the Cascades -- Mt. Rai...

After a week off from the strip I am back in action and ready to rumble! Unfortunately, this also means that summer break is near its end....

I've been sitting on this idea for a while now... but its so true. Sometimes hiking is hard :) [ But don't tell that to your kids...

No stage-time participation for me at the Festival this year, but I did get to design the poster :) It's a fantastic roster all aro...

It's still a little unclear to me, but in response to Governor Inslee's recent ATV safety legislation -- which requires registrati...

Three (plus) years in and I'm still pretty much a novice cartoonist. Its such a compact medium -- but I'm still in awe of its abil...

I'm finally getting close on a new ms revision. Gators Galore! Hey, that sounds like a title -- but not for this particular book, act...

A forest fire about 45 miles from home meant that electricity for the entire upper valley was off for about 12 hours on Monday afternoon i...

I'm not necessarily sayin' that Harvey rocks the 'bone like a skinny mountain goat, or that D. Wolfe (in the house), jams t...

A new review of Who Has This Tail? From the "Reading Chair" review section of Young Children:  The Journal of the National Ass...

When you get right down to it, with SO many things happening -- summer is exhausting! A quiet night or two in a tent sound pretty good.

Wishing I had more time for the indulgence of a good summer action movie -- and closer proximity to a theater, it suddenly occurred to me ...

Recently appointed Children's Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt , has selected Sea Star Wishes (Sasquatch Books, April 2013) as his book o...

Thor took full advantage of the Super Moon last weekend, and pumped up his ego... for the inevitable sarcastic jibe from Melanie. Summer i...

Summer Reading is off and running... *ON THE SOAP BOX* And, as per usual, it's more than just sitting kids down with a book of their o...

SEA STAR WISHES was in today's Seattle Times! Thanks to author Eric Ode for the head's up and to librarian Stephanie Dunnewind f...

School's out in the Methow Valley! One more school visit for me and then it's on to Summer Reading :)

Happy Graduation Week Class of 2013! The newspaper/print edition did not run my footnote regarding Voltaire's Candide . If you thought...

Memorial Day (observed) by our fine furry friends at Harts Pass...

While I'm not 100% certain that wolverines get mistaken for "baby bears" in the wild, readers do sometimes confuse them in t...