"Where am I?"
Jay Cline
Contact Jay at cline@sequimgazette.com
I'm the Macintosh guy ad designer at the Sequim Gazette. I'm a husband, father and grandfather and I like to take photos, ride and wrench motorcycles, and play with anything tech related. In this blog I will be shooting photos somewhere on the North Olympic Peninsula, see if you can guess where they were taken.

“Feeling Sequimish”
Mark Couhig
Contact Mark at mcouhig@sequimgazette.com
Mark Couhig has been a writer for more than 50 years. 
His first experience with the written word came when he, at a very early age, was required to painstakingly hand-trace dotted lines in a notebook, a process that led first to a mastery of the straight, purely angular letters of the English alphabet. He soon turned his attention to the curved letters, exhibiting a full proficiency in that skill by the end of his seventh year.
Before another year had passed, Couhig had begun to cluster letters into meaningful compositions, an accomplishment for which he was awarded a coveted gold star, the first-ever public acknowledgement of his extraordinary aptitude with words.
In time he would take these words and strategically create further clusters, which he called “sentences.”
Paragraphs soon followed.
In the third grade Couhig learned the skill of cursive writing, allowing him to greatly expand and accelerate his output.
Over the ensuing months and years Couhig’s now-renown facility for dramatic narrative developed. He was able to work the delicate filigree of fiction — dramatic, purposeful action that engages the reader — to a degree that astonished Ms. Sweeney, his teacher and mentor. Of one of Couhig’s early works, “Run, Tom, Run,” she wrote, “I’m so proud of you.” 
As his facility with words grew, so too did his worldview, aided in part by his assiduous readings of “The Weekly Reader,” which he still regards as a formative influence in his later, more mature works.
In the fifth grade, Couhig’s repertoire and love of the written word translated to a sterling turn on the stage as Shepherd No. 3 in a new and dynamic dramatic reading of the Gospel According to Luke, a popular work of the time.
Approximately 50 years later Couhig moved to Sequim where he writes a blog. 

"Another Blog on the Fire"
Michael Dashiell
Contact Mike at miked@sequimgazette.com
Michael Dashiell (that's me) is editor of the Sequim Gazette. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Western Washington University, has worked at the Sequim Gazette for about 10 years and enjoys writing — occasionally. He and his wife Patsene live in Sequim; their two daughters are in college. He will write about anything, but particularly enjoys sports, arts, breaking news and news-of-the-weird. He also enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

"Number one authority on nothing"
Matthew Nash
Contact Matt at mnash@sequimgazette.com
Matthew Nash hails from Portland, Ore., and stumbled into writing for newspapers when his high school allowed him to write movie reviews. He holds an English degree from Concordia University in Portland. He married a kindergarten teacher and the couple expects their first child in June 2012. Nash enjoys writing in third person and hopes you’ll read his  pictures and thoughts on babies and pop culture.

"At Winters' End"
Amanda Winters
Contact Amanda at awinters@sequimgazette.com
You are?
I'm Amanda Winters.
How old are you?
I'm a minority in Sequim, let's leave it at that. Wouldn't you rather know how long I've been a writer?
OK, how long have you been a writer?
Two decades. My mom possesses the original works of Amanda Winters.
Sounds valuable. So, what do you do?
Well, aside from writing news stories, taking photos and managing the social media for the Sequim Gazette, I watch movies with my husband, play fetch with our dog, have a weekly family dinner with my parents and sisters, go out with friends when I find the time and moonlight as a waitress. But I'm not saying where. Come find me on a Sunday morning. The baked goods are to die for.