Mother morning came too early. The doctor calls in sick and the baby came out prematurely, purple blue screaming. A door, a great and old weathered oak, silver-knobbed door between massive white pillars.

This is not a fancy Café. You will not get a pretty latte. At the city corner. Dirt black coffee from a French press goes straight to the brain. Making hands twitch. Pretty silver stars sway in the heat.

Birthdays. Don't cha love to hate them? They're an entire day, dedicated for you, do whatever you wish. Except it also means you're getting older, which for most isn't a pleasant thought. Older doesn't

Pt 4: We set off across Cowlitz Glacier in the blanket of night. We were two tiny specks trekking an inhospitable landscape of gaping glacial slices, cracks all around cutting hundreds of feet deep into

Pt3 Log Book: A hungry bird hops around our tent searching for a nibble at ten thousand feet. An avalanche rumbles uphill. Tumbling rocks echo off cliff faces rolling down through the valley. Blinding

Log Book: Step, Left foot. Right. Plunge ice ax. Darkness all around. Find the rhythm. Left foot, Right. Step. Follow the rope. Crevasse on the left. One hundred feet below. 3am Darkness on the ridge Darkness

Pt1: "Her Mighty Hump in my Sights" July, 2013, Seattle vacation, I saw her. I floated on an inner tube along the shores of Lake Washington. A dock jutted out like the capital letter ‘T’ slammed

I heard stories of this working. We had to try it out. Last fall Dim Media artist member Joe got married. As part of his wedding décor we sculpted animal heads to be hung on the gallery walls (he got married

And in the morning, that kind of morning that leaks in slowly around the drapes feeling good and well drawn out like a thick moist fog before the sun’s rays come stirring it up and floating it off in yellow

Chapter 11: Fire and Spider Fire consumes. It burns energy from the source. Until there is nothing left but ash. A spider crawls along the floor stretching its thin pale legs mechanically. It creeps closer

Over the years I return to a motif: bone fish, dead fish, ghost fish This painting was the first using drowning bone fish for subject matter. I really enjoy building up the background texture and color

Adventures in climbing don’t always involve going up (and back down). Some of the best areas are off the beaten path for the casual hiker and more extreme measures must be taken to reach the desired crags.

Overlooking a vast green meadow of hills rolling endlessly in all directions. Looming high overhead, far east, a dark and black cloud floats across the horizon. Blue brilliance fills the otherwise empty

Art is an evolutionary process. If it weren't, the artist could become stagnant in style, form, and talent. As an artist it is the hope to continually improve and push to the next plateau. It feels there

What it feels like being a fish in a great big fish tank. Footage from off the West Coast of Cozumel The Internet tells me ocean covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface, and less than 5% of the ocean has

Jack makes the phone call. His job is complete. Walls begin to shake and white mist enters our room seeping in through narrow vents along the ceiling. It’s poisonous to breath. Uncontrollably we all begin

In my opinion, sometimes all a person needs is a little reason, something to get them outdoors. That’s one huge aspect of rock climbing I enjoy. It’s that excuse I have to get out of town, take that extended

A spider on a web rests in the railing of iron bridge. It looks to its neighbor who has almost completed weaving its own fine, thinly strung web and says, Chapter 8: Spider Talk “Well fellow brother, we

12:15, confused in a blind disillusion, I find myself in a lounge, dark and damp, cocooned. Pretty aroma and soft candy smoke filters through the dim room. Long tubes of relief stretch from ornate glass

Once past Eddy Falls, the halfway point of the voyage marked the point of no return. It was the long haul forward or no way back. Resting for a bit of lunch at the serene waterfall of Eddy Falls our little