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Coffee with that?

Opie and the bully

A timely correction...

A Xmas postcard, and a loose pile of family & friends

A Christmas Eve postcard, and a flood of powerful stories

Al French and the "forever chemicals"

Sunday's postcard, and a peek ahead to 2024

Wednesday's postcard, and solstice photon therapy

Monday's postcard, and a sale on frozen favorites...

Sunday's postcard, and a progress report on the investigation into West Plains groundwater contamination

Thursday's postcard, and Bart Gellman's prescient reporting

Tuesday's postcard, and landscape therapy far from leaf blowers, and the beaten path

Sunday's postcard, and reckoning with the venom of Trumpism

Wednesday's postcard, and how to find the austere beauty of the scablands, on Main Avenue, starting Friday

Monday's postcard, and why Central Washington University's Nick Zentner is a national treasure

Thanksgiving postcards, and hope in hard times...

Tuesday's postcard, and a cleansing breath for all sides in the Gaza conflict

Sunday's postcard, and stepping into frozen...

Wednesday's postcard, and how America gets delivered to Gaza

Friday's postcard, and a modest buffet of basalt

Sunday's postcard, and a gallery of tightly-squeezed November light

This weekend's postcard, and a Heather Cox Richardson wake-up call

Tuesday's postcard, and what a Seattle Times investigation reveals about the poisoned groundwater west of Spokane

The weekend's postcard, and the new tragedies of a war that wouldn't wait

Thursday's postcard, and meetings with moose...

Tuesday's postcard, and the courage of Ezra Klein

Sunday's postcard, and celebrating Fani Willis

Friday’s postcard, and an introduction to the Rhubarb Skies Photography Store

Wednesday's postcard, and the continuing insurrection in our midst

Tuesday's postcard, and how Washington embraced geologist J Harlen Bretz

Monday's postcard, and field notes from the last mile of Deep Creek

Friday's featured photo, and billions of other clues to the catastrophe that delivers Spokane's drinking water

Thursday's postcard, and the piece I didn't write today...

Tuesday's postcard, and a look back at some wildly beautiful swims in the Spokane River

Monday's postcard, and a walk in the woods

Friday’s photo, how a good photo happens, and a special offer for subscribers, or those who’d like to be

Thursday's postcard, and big stories in an upside-down world

Thursday's postcard, brief notes, and photographic breaths of autumnal air

Wednesday's postcard, and coping with the surreal nature of climate change, and humans...

Tuesday's postcard, a brief respite and some notes on the door...

This weekend's postcard, and the story of my visits with the Spokane River's wild redbands

Friday's postcard, and wild birds of eastern Washington, giving voice

Wednesday's postcard, and the Spokane Airport's word-bomb response to disclosure of its PFAS contamination problem

Tuesday's postcard, and an open plea for Trestle Creek

Monday's postcard, and September light, Vol. III

The weekend's postcard, and the mountain gateway for the Northwest's Ice Age floods

Thursday's postcard, and September light, Vol. II

Tuesday's postcard, and September light, Vol. I

Sunday's postcard, and Love in the time of vertigo

Friday's postcard, and bring on the big wings

Thursday's postcard, and a field guide to the spectacular Drumheller Channels

Tuesday's postcard, and a couple things I didn't have to worry about today because I'm white

Sunday's postcard, and a day in and out of the river

Friday's postcard, and living in the shadow of a rogue state

Wednesday's postcard, and the state's wake up call for Spokane International Airport's water pollution problem

Sunday's postcard, and Part IV of UFOs

Wednesday's postcard, Trumpapalooza, and where is Hunter S. Thompson when we need him most?

Tuesday's postcard, and the trouble Spokane's airport may face for not disclosing its contaminated groundwater problem

This weekend's postcard, and tiny flyers...

Wednesday's postcard, and the dances of bluebirds and flickers

Tuesday's postcard, and the days between the nightmares

This weekend's postcard, and the half anniversary of The Daily Rhubarb

Thursday's postcard, and a succinct, spot-on warning about the state of American politics

Today's postcard, and 3 intractable truths, from Republicans, in the historic Trump indictment

Tuesday's postcard, and the magic of sunlight, water, and ancient cobbles

Sunday's postcard, and UFOs, Part III

Friday's postcard, and something a tad worse than stupid

Thursday's postcard, and two postscripts...

Wednesday’s postcard, and why it’s apparently not hot enough for Steve Scalise...

Monday's postcard, and Part 2 of UFOs

Tuesday's postcard, and an invitation to join me, Saturday, at Dry Falls

Monday's postcard, and the late and early light

Sunday's postcard, and Part 1 of UFOs

Today's postcard, and a mid-summer floral foray

Thursday's postcard, and how professional golf found its moral hazard

Tuesday's postcard, & a visit to the 'Provenance' series, so far...

Monday's postcard, and a postscript on the hottest week in human history

Rough Landing

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Today's postcard, and a brief explanation for why we're cooking the planet

Wednesday's postcard and 7 surreal landscapes

Tuesday's postcard, and the red, white, and blues about the Fourth of July

Five months, 101 posts, and more on the way (with your help)

Creatures large & small

Tuesday's postcard, and a postscript to Sunday's primer on the "forever chemical" pollution problem

Sunday’s postcard, and a primer on the ominous “forever chemicals” that contaminate drinking water from coast-to-coast

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the hardy volunteers keeping an eye on Priest Lake water quality

Monday's postcard, and a summer solstice field trip

Sunday's postcard, a liquid cyclone, and how an extinct, ancient sea creature wound up on the West Plains

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Tuesday's postcard, and June days in the Palouse

Monday's postcard, and a postscript to Sunday's essay

Sunday's postcard, and the latest casserole for the potluck of Trumpian lies

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a gallery of photo sketches in earth, water & sky

Tuesday's postcard, and the remarkable news story you didn't get to read about yesterday

Monday's postcard, and field notes from Washington's southeasternmost corner...

Sunday's postcard, and scoping the "forever chemical" story on the West Plains

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a place every Washingtonian should visit, at least once

The countdown to a season of fine swims

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and those quick things with yellow wings

Wednesday's postcard, and living on the perilous edge of "The Really Big One"

Tuesday's postcard, and a visit to the debt ceiling ruse

Sunday's postcard, and Dreams of the Blue Dragonflies

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the wild heart of Moses Coulee

Wednesday's postcard, and the long shadow of white supremacy and domestic terrorism

Tuesday's postcard, and the solace of distant places

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and how to find and appreciate Northrup Canyon

Wednesday's postcard, and hangin' with the cliff-diving swallows

Tuesday's postcard, and an important big story, illuminated by a smaller news story

Monday's postcard, and how to find beauty in the middle of nowhere

A Bloomsday postcard, and the thirty year circle of shame with Clarence Thomas and his enablers

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and an essential short detour on your way to, or from, Seattle

Wednesday's postcard. Our precarious hold on journalism ethics, and why it matters.

Tuesday's postcard, and one of the great shows on Earth

Monday's postcard, and how to find and experience the 'Bretz' hills

Sunday's postcard, and Spokane writer Don Cutler on why the darkest chapter in Washington history still matters

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, a brilliant flyer, and a problem on the West Plains

Wednesday's postcard, and other news

An Earth Day photo gallery

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Monday's postcard, the beautiful fury of the river in April, and other scenes

Sunday's postcard, the path to Amarillo, and the courts' collapsing credibility on abortion

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, Linda Greenhouse, and the search for America

Wednesday's soaking postcard, and 5 favored landscapes

Today's postcard, Clarence Thomas, and the Third Cigar

An Easter postcard, being at the New Moon, and other joys...

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute fiction

A dream-like photo and my pen on The Inlander's new cover story

Moonstruck

Tuesday's postcard, and the day's honk of history

Monday's postcard, and a second dose of wild bouquets

Sunday's postcard, and a spring bouquet

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute fiction

Thursday's postcard, and the unheeded warnings of the Fox News "Brain Room"

Today's postcard, a wild encounter, and where to find me in April

A mother's cry in Nashville

A Daily Rhubarb update and bucket of gratitude

Today's postcard and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a tribute to Cassidy Hutchinson

Wednesday's postcard, and a browser's guide to The Daily Rhubarb, thus far

Tuesday's postcard, and Vol. 2 of some favorite, western rock outbursts

Sunday's postcard, and visits, with camera, to some favorite western rock formations

A St. Patrick's Day postcard, and Friday's Four-minute fiction...

Thursday's postcard, and Ari Melber's surprising guest

Wednesday's postcard, upcoming Beautiful Wounds events, and some favorite winter photos

Tuesday's postcard, some late winter bird notes, and a writer's clever interview with the King James bible.

Monday's postcard, more waters of March, and a short video from the middle of nowhere

Sunday's postcard, and a first encounter with a surreal, exotic rock

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute Fiction

Thursday's video postcard, and a liquid montage from the Devil's Toenail in west Spokane

Wednesday's postcard, and an important note for readers

Tuesday's postcard, and how to make eye contact with a moose, or a hummingbird...

Monday's postcard, and some new light on the question of where Earth's water came from

Sunday's postcard, and a quick, geologic tour of how Washington state took shape

Today's postcard, and Friday Four-minute fiction

Thursday's postcard, and a time-traveling story back to an electric battle in the Palouse

Wednesday's postcard, and a minute of wild beach zen

Tuesday's postcard, and Rupert Murdoch's stunning deposition

Monday's postcard, and five favorite buttes

Sunday's postcard, and 'A Universal Glow,' the funny story of how we found the cosmic baby photo.

Today's postcard, and the debut of Friday Four-minute Fiction

Today's postcard, and a look back at some of Hanford's bravest scientists

Wednesday's postcard, praise for Anna King's "Ghost Herd" journalism, and other shout-outs

The textures of Deep Creek

Monday's postcard, and a followup to the Runaway Truck of Lies and Fox News

Peter Higgs and the "God particle" that isn't

Friday's postcard, and a cast of winter woodpeckers (and their kin)