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

July 25, 2024

Summer reading at Priest Lake, ID

The Stopwatch and the Water Gap

I’m a better swimmer now than I was when I was nine. My sister Nancy would tell you I was a thrasher, a skinny, freckled, crew-cutted being who windmilled my way through the water, as if being chased by sharks. I looked like a drowning in progress. There are home movies to prove this.

It to…