Specializing in fiction and non-fiction feature writing, covering topics such as psychology, health, culture, music, film, travel, and more.
Overnight in Southern Thailand’s Largest Virgin Rainforest
Our guide through the rainforest leads barefoot. She snaps bamboo shoots from the trailside and whittles them to make toys as we switchback up the mountainside.
Foraging for Art in the Salish Sea
Jill Bliss works at the overlap between artist, naturalist and caretaker.
So You Think You’re a Good Listener?: What Active Listening Really Entails
“You know what I mean?”
A friend finishes speaking and looks to you for feedback. Only problem is, you weren’t listening. Now: does that make you a bad listener?
Most of us would answer no — but ...
A Safe Space Makes Comedy Better at Comedy Nest
"Before you would go to an open mic, and there wouldn’t even be lights on in the women’s bathroom, because people just assumed women aren’t here.”
Plastic-Eating Mushrooms
Imagine all the plastic trash you accumulate from one trip to the grocery store, from water bottles and children’s toys to clamshell containers and cosmetic microbeads. Now imagine enough of that trash to equal the weight of one billion elephants, and you’ll have some sense as to the amount of plastic we’ve discarded since the 1950s.
Change Comes to Cuba: Tourism Rocks the Time-Capsule Island
“So, Obama o Trump?”
It’s the first English I’ve heard my Cuban taxi driver, Alex, utter with any confidence.
In Search of Seattle's Best Veggie Burger
I had the perfect veggie burger once—only once.
Blindspotting | DOPE Reviews
Collin (Daveed Diggs) is a convicted felon recently paroled with three days left on his probation.
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: Can Lab-Grown Meat Go Mainstream?
Lab-grown meats may come with their own peculiar set of psychological stumbling blocks, but they may also be essential to preserving our health—and our planet.
Ten Days with the Achuar: The Dying Amazonian Tribe That Lives Based on Their Dreams
'It’s probably one of the most life-changing experiences that I have had.'
Revisiting ‘Jaws': What Modern Summer Blockbusters Should Learn From the Original
The unique cinematic achievements of ‘Jaws’ remains as brilliantly realized today as it did forty years ago.
The Three Ecosystems of Olympic National Park
An orange kayak cuts through the still surface of Lake Crescent like a knife through turquoise gelatin.
Can We Keep Sushi Sustainable? Seattle’s Mashiko Restaurant is Already on a Roll
Customers may enter Mashiko in West Seattle expecting the same rolls they’d find at any other sushi bar across the nation.
Seattle Animator Recreates a Childhood with Construction Paper
A handmade stop-motion aesthetic that only seems fitting for such a personal story of childhood.