We are Winter People and Today is a Snow Day
3 yrs. old We walked heads down into the icy wind, my brothers and I, across a mile of a barren wheat field under a lead gray sky. The expanse […]
3 yrs. old We walked heads down into the icy wind, my brothers and I, across a mile of a barren wheat field under a lead gray sky. The expanse […]
Stepping out and walking up the hill over ice-crusted snow and through the blessed darkness, Colored tree lights shine and blur the edges of
This morning a half moon hangs in the sky. I take my walk along the river at around 10 am, when the sun breaches the horizon. The river is consumed
Flying 2,000 feet above the tundra on a partly cloudy day, the slant of the sun breaks across my face, and the proximity to the earth below is tangible and
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“My very soul is wedded to it. If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth, seeking the successive autumns.” Every year when the colors change and the
We motored out into Prince William Sound in our boat/landing craft, Tookah, with a couple kayaks strapped aboard. Only a hour’s drive from Anchorage, Prince William Sound is a boater’s paradise
I’m in the process of writing my memoirs of the last thirty years living in Alaska, which is an adventurous task (I took my first job out of graduate school
On a quiet county road a woman sells vegetables and red elderberry jam She rolls down her awning as lightening splits the sky and rain pounds down in sheets. Logging
Ravens The sky is sharp today, Mother The trees wave wildly in the wind but there are no clouds in the sky to push around. I thought I
Like so many indigenous peoples around the world who have historically been exploited, forced off their land and exterminated, this story is especially compelling for the century we live in.
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