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How-to Send a Care Package to an Alaskan Fisherman

3 Top Baked Treats For A Fisherman’s Care Package

Let’s share how our love stories began! 🫶👇
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1. Go to a Live Show by yourself. I can’t express how liberating it is to see a favorite band w/o having to consider what anyone else’s wants to do. Find a spot and people watch. Move whereever you’d like. Dance here, dance there, dance anywhere. Stay late or leave early. It’s recharge, like a mini vaca.

2. Go to a Museum or Art Gallery
Connecting with history and art is therapeutic and relaxing. Get your steps in at a local museum or art gallery and lose yourself in it. When you’re alone, you can stroll and stare at a piece as long as you want. Nobody is there to rush or ask for your commentary or sway the vibes of your subjectivity.

3. Grab Dinner and See a Movie
I once took myself out to dinner for Valentine’s Day back when I was a bachelorette. I was craving a burger that day, and thought, why should I feel insecure for going out in public to take care of my needs? I felt freakin’ confident as hell after that. Same goes for time solo when your fisherman’s away. Grab these societal expectations and turn them on their head.

4. Book an Airbnb for an overnight or weekend. Go visit a town or city nearby and be a tourist. Or, staycation in a cool part of town you’ve always wanted to live! Same as going to a Live Show, it’s your rules without any outside opinions on where to go or what to do next. New locations means new inspiration. A reset button, bc if you can, why not?

A reminder that our lives don’t begin and end in the off seasons. They only just begin again and again. 💪⚓️👯‍♀️💞🫶

How do you treat yourself when you’re riding solo w/o your fisherman?

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Invisible labor of Partners of Commercial Fishermen is the reason the commercial fishing industry can function, hands down. I’d love to hear an argument otherwise. Do you agree?

We are considered the backbone of the industry bc we’ve tended the home fires, fishing business, and raised kids solo since the commercial fishing began hundreds of years ago. Many of us don’t know what we’re getting into until it needs to be done.

Part of our job is handling “all the things” so fishermen can focus on staying safe and fishing hard. We’re called “partners” for a reason. It takes a team.💪🏽👯‍♀️⚓️

Did I ever think I’d get my hands dirty in the trap yard or become the bookkeeper? How abt the mama POCFs who raise kids during the season or those who advocate to keep fisheries running? I see you, we see you, and we celebrate all you do! Your value is incomparable. And if you haven’t heard it lately, you are appreciated 🫶

What unexpected tasks/jobs have you done since you met your fisherman?

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We all have reasons for this lifestyle: flexible schedules, “off-season” togetherness, carrying on or building a legacy, the chase of a bountiful season…it’s a roll of the dice and sense of adventure that keeps it interesting, and the love of the ocean that pulls us back for more.

What’s the biggest highlight for you in this commercial fishing life? 👯‍♀️⚓️🫶

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💍 3 years married yesterday & it feels like we’ve lived many lifetimes together since we met over 8 1/2 years ago. (Still can’t believe we once lived and traveled on a sailboat ⛵️from WA to Mexico. That time put our relationship to the test and we did it right out of the gates! Better to know sooner than later, right?)

As y’all know, Chris is my ultimate muse - there wouldn’t be a Partners of Commercial Fishermen community w/o him! So instead of gushing abt it here, there are many stories (the ups AND downs) about him and our relationship on the blog POCFPride.com under “I Heart.”

“I Heart” was my column in a paper in Santa Barbara, CA. A “sex and the city” vibe, documenting my curious dating life before Chris, the moment I met him up to our wedding day and more.

I am so grateful to have had the chance to immortalize our love story in print. As they say, if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. Here’s to us now, and forever. 💞

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Wedding pics by the fabulous @kimgrahamphoto 🫶

(Who else?) My brain when Chris said to himself over coffee the other morning, “I’m going back to Alaska this summer to run another boat.” As much as I love time to myself, the thought of another goodbye makes my heart drop.

However, instead of feeling down abt letting this get to me after 8+ years together, I remember that not all seasons are the same and sometimes you feel the feels more than others. This is normal 🫶
Snapping back to enjoying time together is the real trick. Otherwise, we’ll catch ourselves in a cycle of longing instead of taking advantage of the joys and FREEDOM of the off-season. If you’re feeling this way, or have in the past, you are not alone! Sending you love as I work through it, too. 💞⚓️👯‍♀️

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