Eastern WA Creatives

Dancing Down Memory Lane

By Huckleberry Press / October 20, 2020 /

Do sixth graders even have Halloween dance parties in their basements anymore?

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Harvest, Burning and Expectation

By Huckleberry Press / September 21, 2020 /

The air grows crisp as the grasses scratch at bare legs. It’s time to pick seeds out of socks and find homes for all the garden tomatoes and zucchini carefully tended through the summer.

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We’re Gonna Zoom Zoom Zoom-ah ZOOM!

By Huckleberry Press / September 8, 2020 /

by Amy McGarry Folks of my age might recognize these lyrics to the theme music for the kid’s show Zoom on PBS back in the ‘70’s. Remember before cable TV…

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Spokane Valley’s Very Own Renaissance Man

By Huckleberry Press / July 29, 2020 /

The definition of Renaissance man is a person with many talents or areas of knowledge. For one Spokane Valley Renaissance man, that definition barely scratches the surface.

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Worry

By Huckleberry Press / June 20, 2020 /

It’s an odd thing, I don’t know what to worry about anymore. At first it was whether or not my family of six washed our hands eleventy thousand times a day.

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The Other Mother

By Huckleberry Press / May 15, 2020 /

Family is not predicated by blood. We all have that neighbor, friend, boss, mentor or lover that feels like home.

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Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader?

By Huckleberry Press / May 14, 2020 /

Recently, in the wonderful life of pandemic parenting and schooling from home (snicker snicker), I found myself on Google trying to relearn how to determine the numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom.

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The Plant and the Hippo

By Huckleberry Press / May 5, 2020 /

At first it appeared that Tanner was happy again, staying busy and spending more time with friends, but Hill and I often discussed our apprehensions. And then we saw it.

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Getting Grounded

By Huckleberry Press / May 1, 2020 /

It is garden season and with that brings excitement and, in my case, trepidation. Will the earwigs move to the moistened mulch from their cozy home in the basement bathroom?

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The Forest for The Trees

By Huckleberry Press / April 10, 2020 /

No one needs to tell you the world is changing. The novel coronavirus took a swift journey around the world in mere months and by the first week of March the United States was beginning to truly feel its effects.

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