Yours Truly 2016 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA | Page 118

Louise Spiegler

Jessica Todd

Anne Tuominen

Andre Rikki Ward

Cascadia College Faculty
Louise Spiegler teaches history at Cascadia
and English at UWB. Her first novel, The
Amethyst Road, was published in 2005, and
was a New York Public Library Book for the
Teenage, a School Library Journal selection
and a finalist for the Andre Norton Award
(Hugo-Nebula Award Scheme). The Jewel and
the Key, her second novel, was published by
Clarion in 2011. She says, “I wrote “Orkney” a
long time ago — in 1989, when I was twentyfour. I didn’t have an electronic copy, and had
to search for the typed manuscript in a pile of
books and papers in my basement. I liked the
idea of publishing something I wrote when I
was fairly young for a magazine produced
and edited by college students here at
Cascadia.”

Cascadia College Faculty
Anne Tuominen is a professor, a woman,
a parent, an instructional designer, a
multilingual immigrant. She is a keen observer
of the social world, and her favorite seat in
a restaurant or at a park is always the one
with the widest possible view of that world
and the people in it. Her aesthetic sense is
captivated especially by the social world’s
physical artifacts: the colors, shapes, and
textures of humankind’s creations. Follow
her sociological observations at www.
thesociologicalobserver.com and her open
source photograph collection at https://www.
flickr.com/photos/41059865@N05/.

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Cascadia College Student
My name is Jessie and I’ve been writing since
I could hold a pencil. I have boxes and boxes
full of journals that I’ve kept since I was five
years old. Writing is not a career for me—it is
a release from daily life, and an expression.
There are some times when I don’t even
know how I feel about something until I start
writing, and subconscious personality comes
out. It is truly a beautiful thing because it is
almost like getting to know my inner self.

Cascadia College Student
At least once a week I’ll go out for a drive
randomly, not knowing where I’m going, but
always bringing my camera. Somedays I’ll go
out there and I won’t find a thing, however on
other days, I’ll find these incredible places I’ve
never seen before, and get some great shots.