by Barbara Clarke | November 15, 2021
It’s the mid-1970s and I’m sitting with the women in my consciousness raising group. The what group? You smile now but it was a godsend then. We are a mix—single, married, divorced or soon to be, a range of ages—united in our new feminism and the joy to be talking... 
by Barbara Clarke | November 1, 2021
In early September, my daughter Cara and I drove south on Farm to Market road through the charming towns of Bow and Edison for an early morning walk. We were headed for Padilla Bay where the Skagit River meets the Salish Sea. The estuary at the saltwater edge of the...