Sitemap - 2023 - The Daily Rhubarb
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sunday's postcard, and Part IV of UFOs
Wednesday's postcard, Trumpapalooza, and where is Hunter S. Thompson when we need him most?
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
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)
Tuesday's postcard, and a postscript to Sunday's primer on the "forever chemical" pollution problem
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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)