I am an ardent logophile, located in the enchanting Pacific Northwest. My background and education is in journalism, but I'm regularly chasing opportunities to write in new ways and styles on a variety of topics. I love wielding words and language to help other people, groups and organizations share their stories in engaging, moving and accurate ways. Writing also is my method for communicating the thoughts, opinions and knowledge I possess and hold dear in order to connect with other humans and construct shared meaning.
I hold a bachelor's degree in communications with a focus on journalism. Over the years, I've written hundreds of news and feature articles for various publications, covering a variety of topics including local and state government; business and development; social and environmental issues; health and wellness; education; and community events. My commercial work includes more than 1,000 assignments, from blog and social media posts to web and newsletter content, for clients across the country.
At the mouth of the Columbia River, a variety of natural elements coincide to create one of the most dangerous entrances to a commercial waterway in the entire world. Yet crossing the treacherous waters of the Columbia River Bar - a key feature of an area aptly known as the Graveyard of the Pacific - is crucial to maritime trade throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Although she's an exemplary artist in her own right, Deborah Stenberg's deepest satisfaction is derived from passing on skills, techniques and knowledge about the business side of creativity to others who are just venturing into the art world. Stenberg moved to Astoria in October.
The crisis is illuminating economic inequity with distressing contrasts throughout the county. Working from home and continuing to support a family is easier with a white-collar job, not to mention benefits are better protected. The closing of daycares and schools has a more severe impact on single parents already struggling to make ends meet than families supported by two incomes.
It's a Saturday evening, and I'm racing around my bedroom in a sweaty crop top and mud-smeared leggings, frantically vacuuming the small space to make it look marginally cleaner than the rest of our home. I glance at my phone for the time. It reads 6:12 p.m.
After millennia of indigenous peoples living on the land, two centuries of European exploration and inhabitancy, and scores of shipwrecks off the coast, the Columbia-Pacific has a treasure trove of historical artifacts waiting to be uncovered.
Watching a glass artist at work, it can be difficult to detect the premeditation and reasoning behind their series of actions, which at times come across curious and confusing. As the process continues, however, a shape emerges, colors become visible, and the finesse and precision prompting the artist's movements and choices manifest into a resplendent piece of glasswork.
I wasn't looking forward to my daughter discovering the handle on her favorite Frozen mug was broken and fragmented into four separate pieces. The damage had occurred accidentally, of course, when our roommate was washing dishes in the sink.
About a third of Clatsop County babies were delivered through cesarean sections this year through March. That is roughly twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organization.From 2008 to 2014, of the more than 3,200 births countywide, about 29.3 percent were deliveries via cesareans. Vagina
The city is moving ahead with a timber harvesting project on its property in the Necanicum Watershed with little input from the Necanicum Watershed Council, North Coast Land Conservancy and the public.Despite a request by the land conservancy that the city temporarily halt its harvest to discuss har
Gentle, artificial light bounces off natural columns, bobbles, spikes and folds of rock embraced in the heart of the Luray Caverns in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The expansive yet intricate caverns, a U.S. Natural Landmark, are worthy of an individual visit.