All Posts Written by "ken"
The opposite of warm
It’s early, still plenty dark outside, and it feels like the mercury has fallen out of the bottom of the thermometer. Somewhere around here, after we fall back an hour but before the Christmas carols start oozing out of the grocery store sound system, is when winter actually arrives. Today feels like it might be […]
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Kittson Island
There’s a small islet in south Puget Sound named for the one-time Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company down Nisqually way. Charles Wilkes, when he drifted through these waters back in the mid-1800’s, was a naming fool, hanging a name on every island, point and waterway he came across. The way he saw it, […]
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Your voice
It seems like, every four years, we’re told that “this is the most important election of your life.” I would think that with the law of averages being what it is, they can’t all be the most important, or even the most important so far. But why quibble over false superlatives? I don’t know if […]
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Pristine
“Right now, on both the Washington and Oregon coasts, the beaches seem to be pretty pristine.” The words in the quote above are from a state-level representative briefing the Clallam County commissioners last month. It may be that we have different definitions of the word pristine, and I’m not particularly interested in picking a fight […]
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Looking outside
With less than two weeks to go before Ikkatsu:The Roadless Coast has its premiere moment, we’re looking at a few updates to the project itself. Before we start in full-time on planning next year’s expedition, we’ve got a few more things to do with the one we already completed. First of all, I’m looking forward […]
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Days gone by
I’m not sure why – maybe it’s the rain – but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the big changes, the way that the world moves. Sometimes it’s a combination of little things that team up to make something obsolete, like I wrote about a few days ago with regard to phone books, slide […]
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Vampire watch
The rain is falling in the dark outside my window. A steady, soaking rain, like the kind they get in Guam, except colder. Not the usual misty stuff that we get around here, the kind of rain that Tom Robbins calls the “witch measles of persistent drizzle.” This is somewhere between that and Hurricane Sandy, […]
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Who I am – Who you are
My name is Ken Campbell. This is my blog and the views on it are mine, not supported by or attributable to any other person, company or organization. Sometimes, my views change – less often than they might have done in my younger days – but when that happens, I am likely to admit it. […]
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Buggy whips and chamber pots
Some of the students in my Outdoor Ed classes take leaves from the plants we’re studying so that they can look at them later or use them as reference aids during the next quiz. One of the kids told me last week that some of her leaves were cracking and drying out, weren’t much good for anything anymore. I […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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