Essays

“Nine Ways to Write When You’re the Writer-in-Residence on the Washington State Ferry,”  Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, 11/17/21

“Not Just a Drill,” The Madrona Project, Vol. 2, Empty Bowl, Keep a Green Bough: Voices from the Heart of Cascadia, 2021

“How To Quilt Memories: Instructions For My Mother,” Psaltery and Lyre, November 4, 2019

“These Things Matter to Me,” The Wayfarer, Autumn 2019

“Salish Sea Account,” For Love of Orcas,  anthology by Wandering Aengus Press , April 2019

“Writing the Quotidian,” Homebound Publications Blog

“Attentive Idling,” The Wayfarer, Autumn 2018

“Writer in a Bulletproof Vest,”  The Wayfarer, Issue 3/2018.

“Flight Home,” The Lindenwood Review,  Issue 7/2017.  Honorable Mention – Lyric Essay Contest

“Singed,” The Examined Life Journal, Issue 5.1, October 2016

“S is for Setting”,  ABCs of Creative Nonfiction in Spry Literary Journal, July 24, 2016

“Red Wings,” River Teeth Journal, March 2, 2015

“Seeking Clearness with Work Transitions,” Friends Journal, February 2015

“Leanin’ Into It,” The First Day, Winter 2014

“Cycles,”  Spry Literary Magazine, Issue 2, 2014

“Boris’s Bluff” Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2013. First prize in Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, Student Category, 2013 and included in the anthology, Wildness: Voices of the Sacred Landscape,  Homebound Publications, 2016

“Eat Dessert First,”  Alimentum, July 2013

“Hiking Naked,”  SHARK REEF, Summer 2011.

“Finding the Way Through,” essay included in anthology Enlivened by the Mystery­—Quakers and God, 2009

“Living in Her Hands,”  SHARK REEF, March 2008

Mail Order Groceries,” Home Cooking, March/April 2003

“Rolling Old River,”  SHARK REEF, June 2002

“Finding the Way Through,” Friends Journal, November 2001