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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
Negative Rays
Color is a sort of medicine; when the sky is blue, we stay...but when the sky is exhausted, turns ashy & dull gray we turn away. some would ...
Read More Morning Light
Morning light comes late she puts cinnamon in her coffee sits down and knows. she knows. she can feel it. a soft cloak of fresh snow has covered the earth ...
Read More Naming is a Powerful Thing
I was kayaking off Danzante Island, on the Baja Peninsula with a group of women friends. The island, located in the Loreto National Marine Park, is only a few miles ...
Read More Ancestress
I am an old woman sitting on the beach pink scarf holding back windblown hair a mother makes ...
Read More The Jimi Hendrix of Maui
We didn't think a single thing could top our day. Paddling out in Ma'alaea Bay in inflatable kayaks, we saw humpback whales on the horizon. This time of year, the ...
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