Coeur d’Alene Press
I freelanced as a writer and photographer, putting together local business features and profiles for the Saturday insert Coeur Voice. Click the button for print clippings. Scroll to see a couple of my favorite pieces.
Sravasti Abbey - A place for local Buddhists to seek peace, provide service
Venerable Thubten Damcho checked all the boxes to make her parents in Singapore happy and herself miserable.
Straight A's led to a scholarship at Princeton with a requirement to return home to work for the government for six years.
"And here are the parents at graduation. So proud, so proud. And I was just drunk for those two weeks and miserable. Totally miserable," she said. "It was like maybe the answer to happiness is not all this stuff that's outside, so when I went back to Singapore I began to search more deeply for a spiritual path."
Pacific Northwest artist shares faith-based creative journey
Boat captains have a lot of time to think.
Decades ago, Jeff May’s mind wandered while he sat in his wheelhouse, navigating a giant swell while steering a course from Sitka, Alaska to Kodiak Island, where a crew nearby would study crabs.
May, who had received his 100 Ton Master license at 19, would ruminate then and for a couple years about what he felt God was telling him to do — leave his position and create a new life, one that could allow time for a family, among other things.