Conclusion to Spike Walker’s Story, Staying Alive, in Current Issue of National Fisherman Magazine

The March 2008 issue of National Fisherman has arrived in my mailbox and inside is the conclusion to Spike Walker’s new true-life story, Staying Alive. To read my post on part one of the story, please see “New Story by Spike Walker in National Fisherman Magazine,” which I posted here on January 17, 2008.
It’s refreshing to read [...]

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Fishwife–She’s Here, There, and Everywhere

I’ve heard that one of the first rules of blogging, if you are also a “real” writer, is to not let your blog take over your “real” writing. For example, if you consider yourself a real writer, you have to be careful not to spend more time writing and posting your work on your own blog than [...]

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Links to Stories About WA Coast Dungeness Crab Boats in Peril

Here are a couple of links to stories in The Daily World, a newspaper that serves Grays Harbor and Pacific counties on the Washington Coast.
The first is to an amazing picture and a brief article about a Westport crab boat that ran aground last week.
The second link is to an article that describes a separate situation, also [...]

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Fishwife (briefly) Revisited

If there is one thing I do understand about raising children, it is the importance of trying your best to create a loving, predictable, and stable home environment. When you have a commercial fishing husband and father that comes and goes at irregular intervals, it is especially important to create an environment that will cause [...]

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Learning by Doing

I’ve discovered recently that my time at home, since George has been back at sea, has been one of the most challenging I’ve experienced.

I know well that I am only the latest in a long line of fishing family mothers in my lineage and in the industry at large, and I have it easier than [...]

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New Story by Spike Walker in National Fisherman Magazine

National Fisherman has a surprise for its readers this month.
Spike Walker, writer of the famous book on commercial fishing in the Bering Sea, Working on the Edge, has written a new story entitled Staying Alive. Part one of the story is published inside the current issue of the magazine, with the conclusion set to be published [...]

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Daddy’s Fishing!

The Oregon Sea Grant published a booklet a few years back entitled Adapting to Change—Fishing families, Businesses, Communities, and Regions. One of the topics covered in the booklet is Connecting with Fathers at Sea.

The article (“Fathers and Children through the Ages”) includes pointers on how to help your children stay connected to their commercial fishing [...]

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Pink Harvest–A book and a reading by Toni Mirosevich

I attended a reading at a local bookstore this weekend, something I always enjoy and recommend to everyone. Readings are usually free, last about an hour, have an aura of intellect and celebration about them, and are just simply a pleasant way to spend part of an evening.
I went with my five-month old, Vincent, to hear Croatian-American author Toni [...]

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Time to Myself?

I tell you—what a day. It’s 7 p.m. and both kids are in bed (granted, one is talking on her plush cell phone in her crib and the other is crying from his crib for me to come back and get him—but at least they are in bed).

“Bach?” Eva asked after dinner. “No book tonight, [...]

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Fishwife: A Tale of Unpopularity

I have the world’s most amazing thesaurus–the “Bartlett’s Roget’s Thesaurus,” to be exact. The bottom of the cover of my hardback volume reads, “The marriage of two great names in reference.” It’s over 1400 pages and of great value to me as a reader, writer, and general lover of words.
When I was brainstorming names for [...]

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