By Kimberly Mayer

Journal contributor

A decade ago, I was a columnist at Pyragraph, an online magazine for creatives of all types. My articles focused on writing, and a couple of them pertained to what I called “my writing hut” here on San Juan Island. A little larger than a shed but smaller than a barn — we’ll call it a cabin — it had been on the property before the house. The original owners used the cabin as a bunkhouse while building the house. Nearly 20 years later, as second owners, we lived on a boat while remodeling both the house and cabin.

The cabin was what I liked most about the property. Closer to the shoreline and more rustic, with the cabin, I am back in the boathouses of my childhood in my mind, on a small lake in Connecticut, long before I’d ever heard of the Salish Sea

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