How do people do it, how do they write and blog without losing their focus? I can happily blog away when I’m not writing or when writing shorter pieces: poetry, essays or short stories (though I have to admit that I so seldom write short stories, mostly because I so seldom read short stories, mostly because… Read More Writing and blogging (and mountain pics, too)
Wow. As a long-term Alaska resident, I wasn’t expecting to be impressed by Alpine Air Alaska Inc.’s Glacier Dog Sledding outing. I had been on glaciers, I had covered the Iditarod and other dog sledding races. I thought I had seen it all, yawn, yawn. I hadn’t. The Glacier Dog Sledding experience blew me away. My… Read More Dog sledding on an Alaska glacier: Part I
Well, as Hegel said, the pendulum swings one way and then it swings the other. Right now, it’s swinging in a good direction for me (hallelujah, and thanks to my muse and the goddess of literary intentions). All of my hard work, all of the nights I agonized over commas and line breaks and word… Read More Finalist status, more publications, and pigging out on strawberries
We have a mouse in the house. A very small, kind of cute mouse. It’s in the downstairs area, where my writing room is located. This mouse appears to like my writing room. Maybe it fancies itself as the next Franz Kafka and is using my computer to write Metamorphosis II. Or maybe it’s just… Read More Mouse in the house, and more mountains
We’ve been having incredible weather here. Days and days of sunshine (rare in Alaska), warm temps (again, rare in Alaska) and daylight stretching toward midnight. How can a person possibly stay indoors and write? Well, this person can’t. I’ve had four days off from work and crammed in so much outdoor time that I’m almost… Read More Lots and lots o’ summer, Alaska style
So much light! We’re presently up to almost fifteen (15!) hours of daylight up here in Anchorage, and we’re gaining a giddy five minutes a day. Soon it will be light past midnight and we’ll be out hiking and biking all hours of the night and then dragging ourselves around in an exhausted heap during… Read More Longer days, and I’m loving this book
Scenes from a springtime run with Seriously.
Yesterday we took a drive out to Palmer to visit with my partner’s sister for her birthday. It was late afternoon, the sky a lazy blue, and the mountains looked so lovely that I couldn’t stop snapping photos as if I were a silly-headed tourist. While I don’t love winter, the cold or snow, I… Read More Mountains, and two more rejections
We now have a dog, have I introduced you yet? Maybe I have, but here she is again. Say hello to Seriously. She isn’t our dog, we’re watching her for a friend of a friend. But she’s become our dog, in the way that a dog that you love always becomes your own. She fits… Read More Winter walk (or, why I love dogs)
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