When the Lights Flicker

Life at the quieter edge

Photo by Francesco Casalino on Unsplash

When the lights flicker, especially in the wintertime here on lovely, remote Orcas Island, my husband and I rush to prepare.

The power doesn’t always go out after a flicker — and sometimes there isn’t even that to warn us — but more often than not, an outage is preceded by that little stutter. I, no doubt fancifully, imagine a tree falling onto a power…