Category: Stories

After losing two brothers to suicide, Sabrina Votava founded a prevention-driven nonprofit in Spokane

After losing two brothers to suicide, Sabrina Votava founded a prevention-driven nonprofit in Spokane

Sabrina Votava’s family experienced unimaginable tragedy in 2003. Two separate moments that year changed Votava’s life forever and led the now 34-year-old Spokane native to devote her career to helping ensure that other families in the Inland Northwest don’t go through what hers did.

The Cake Master

The Cake Master

Christine Leaming has always been artistic. Instead of paint or clay or other traditional materials, her chosen media these days are buttercream icing, fondant, modeling chocolate, food dyes and cake batter.

Cookie Canvas

Cookie Canvas

Amber Fenton is a cookie artist. Amongst others in the world of royal icing masters, however, Fenton considers herself a “cookier,” a title adopted by fellow bakers whose canvases of choice are the infinite shapes that can be formed into a sugar cookie.

Inlander Pet Issue, 2018

Inlander Pet Issue, 2018

After being inspired by similar “pet issues” published by a few other alternative weeklies in the U.S., I developed and edited this cover package with contributions from The Inlander’s editorial team.

En Plein Spokane

En Plein Spokane

Rain, shine, snow or wildfire smoke, Megan Perkins stayed true to her commitment to paint a Spokane-centric scene at least once a week for a full year.

Down by the Creek

Down by the Creek

We didn’t have a lot of money growing up, so traditional family vacation trips were rare. What we did have, though, was 20 acres of land in the country, and plenty of time on our hands each summer to enjoy all it had to offer.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure

This isn’t your grandma’s stovetop pressure cooker, with risk of unexpected and dangerous explosions that simultaneously splatter the kitchen ceiling with whatever contents were inside.