I just finished reading the late Alaska author Marjorie Kowalski Cole‘s award-winning novel Correcting the Landscape for the second time. And I’m still impressed by the quietness of this book, and how it lulls you in, how it wraps around you in the simplest and yet most secure of ways. The book, which won the… Read More Review: Correcting the Landscape by Marjorie Kowalski Cole
I couldn’t resist. This is Seriously, the dog we’re co-parenting with another family. She’s part Doberman, part Labrador, totally high-energy and a complete love bomb. A few days ago she rolled in stinky dead stuff. Yesterday she slobbered all over me as we rode in the car. Did I mention that we love her terribly?… Read More Seriously Monday, and Storyknife Alaska Writing Retreat
The good news up here in Alaska is that the light is coming back. It’s 6 p.m. and still light, such a luxury after the long siege of winter darkness. Each year around this time something inside my chest thumps and I feel a strange trilling inside my veins, almost as if my blood is singing, as… Read More Of sled dogs, writing and romance novels
Cinthia Ritchie 