I walked my ballot in, hoping that as I voted for our first female president my lost kitty would follow me home. #PussyGrabsBack #PussyComeH...

Just not the lost kitty... Backstory: our tabby went missing from 127th St and 7th Ave NW on October 26. Three Retrievers Lost Pet Rescue ...

Doug and I may have heard Jake! We caught a meow, a warning warble and then a yowl, all sounding like him and near the shed where a cat has ...

Komu – of Three Retrievers Lost Pet Rescue – took a spin around our neighborhood with his handler James Branson. They found a kitty bunkere...

Doug and I are trying not to panic. Copyright amandacastleman.com

My latest for Sierra Magazine: escape the holiday hustle and winter-camp in continental America's most pristine soundscape.. Madeli...

Batten the hatches! Meteorologist and UW Prof Cliff Mass says this could rival the worst storm in Pacific Northwest history . Copyright ...

Oregon preserves 363 miles of public-access beach: the entirety of its oceanfront. Love, love, LOVE! Battle Rock, Port Orford, copyright...

You're looking spectacular for a 7,700-year old... Oregon's Crater Lake, copyright amandacastleman.com

Sometimes you just have to sneak away and watch America's longest natural sand spit erode for a few days... Dungeness Recreation Ar...

Reporting takes me to some unusual places, including dinner on the 50-yard line at the Seahawks home stadium. So of course I had to bring t...

I love that Sierra Magazine   left in my sub-header saluting his curmudgeonly streak: " Edward Readicker-Henderson   wants you to get o...

Time out at Brooks Falls in Monkman Provincial Park. A break from aerial shooting at the Limestone Lakes in B.C.'s Central Rocky ...

Schlepping our household two stories: not the most fun. Watching the sunset over the Olympic Mountains from my new home office: priceless! ...

My "50 Shades of Grey" misadventure in Spain continues to shock and awe, most recently in this witty AFAR story by Karen Catchpol...

For a grand finale, Makani Kai Helicopters lofted me over Oahu, from Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head, the Sacred Falls and the red-dirt leewar...

"Too often modern life drowns out engagement with nature," said Kahuna Anu on an outrigger canoe paddle this morning. "We gi...

My parents invented me a brilliant, mercurial older brother named "Edward" and spun endless yarns about him. Decades later,...

Charlotte Austin at the Mineral reading. Copyright amandacastleman.com We opened the windows, so literature cascaded onto the 30 inmat...

Fire across the water. Copyright amandacastleman.com Washington's Alder Lake fire has now charred 220 acres nearby... Tomorrow conv...