The title could be Writing While Frightened, Writing While Anxious, Writing While Worried (www, but that stands for something else, so let’s not use that). Most of us are worried about the virus and its mutations, but we express the worry in words that don’t include Covid or Delta or Omicron or Virus. Instead, we […]
Arne Hedstrom shoved aside the family size pizza box and belched. He’d bet soup was on at the Landing. It wasn’t that he expected Kelda to have dinner ready when he walked in the door, not every night, four out of five seemed reasonable. A working man needs a hearty, homecooked meal at the end […]
Therapists at Mid-Sound Mental Health often joked that all their phone calls were emergencies, but Kelda startled, dropping her pen, when the emergency-call buzzer rang through to her office. The receptionist rarely interrupted a session in progress. “Kelda Hansen here,” she said, turning away from her clients, a bickering mother and daughter in her office […]
Hansen’s Landing is set on a small Puget Sound bay where Norwegian immigrants in the late 1800s settled alongside Native Americans who had lived there for thousands of years and fished the bay. One of the small autonomous villages was home to the Suquamish Indians. Immigrants who came for the abundant timber used the bay […]
