My 2004 year-end letter where I tell you why I think a chainsaw is a terrible gift idea for a 100-year-old aunt, and learning where to hide booze in a vintage plane from World War II Women Airforce Pilots.
Katie, T-, and Heidi 2004
My 2003 year-end letter where I tell about an owl I found sitting in the middle of the road.
The Owl And The Pussy Cat
My 2002 year-end letter where I talk about small-town life where having a newspaper delivered to your house is major news, and where the best seller in a book store is sometimes a fishing license.
My 2001 year-end letter where I talk about letting a baby into my life, having a boy toy, and skinny dipping at the World Trade Center.
Katie at Cape Perpetua
My 2000 year-end letter where I talk about getting Elderhostlers lost in a parking lot and getting paid to roast marshmallows and to not play the guitar. Only in America.
T- not playing the Guitar @ the Overleaf Bonfire
My 1999 year-end letter where I talk about frozen pumps, cleaning whale snot off a ship and broccoli that’s growing out of control.
License Boat Cartoon 8018
My 1996 year-end letter in which I write about, among other things, my failure to inspire a bunch of delinquents who were put in my charge.
Zooey
My 1995 year-end letter where I talk about a typical day, waking up in bed with starving pets, working in a supposedly haunted Lightkeepers House, a description of The Hair Curler from Hell (the most imaginative use of binder clips ever known to womankind), and building a Dr. Seuss-like greenhouse.
T- on Heceta Lightkeeper’s House’s Porch
A year-end letter I sent in 1994 where I talk about the odd things you can recycle at a forest fire and winning a major forestry award in, of all places, Cleveland.
Me building my house
My 1993 year-end letter where I tell about hoops I had to go through to get a construction loan, putting in a water system with the help of a pot farmer, and having one of my contractors die just as we started to build my cabin.
T-, Dad, and Mom in front of my leaky trailer after a day of painting
