I have spent four months writing about how a group of Olympia carpenters learned to get organized and act as a community of carpenters. I told the story of how building a community .and finding allies created something beyond just the interests of carpenters. In the course of my writing…
Works in Progress
Black, 56 year old, former Evergreen student and activist Yvonne McDonald was found by a street sweeper near her home in Olympia on the morning of August 7th, 2018. Yvonne was covered in scratches, cuts and bruises, her clothes were torn, and her shoes and purse were placed eerily beside…
The energy and hunger expressed in the original Women’s March helped to embolden women from outside the establishment to run for office. It helped make them winners at the polls. They brought radical views and a drive to redirect government in favor of the mass of people into state and…
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions, 2013 As a scientist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Kimmerer weaves together stories of indigenous traditions, her experiences as a botanist, professor, mother, and practitioner of crafting and harvesting. And always, she is listening to the living…
WIP wants you to read a book and tell us about it. Last Word Books will supply the book, you supply the eyes and the pen. Here are some suggestions we’d like to see reviewed. Anne Patchet—Baby you’re gonna be mine Richard Powers—Overstory Todd Miller—Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration…
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story —Arundhaty Roy, The God of Small Things The small drop of water from the Bronx You and I know that a small drop of water can sometimes reflect the sun. That is, it has…