North in the Morning
Tomorrow is the day I head to Kotzebue, Alaska, via Seattle and Anchorage, and I wanted to get one last blog posted before I leave Texas. I don’t know what to expect as far as my schedule goes once I...
View ArticleFirst Impressions
As much as I would like to write something lovely and poetic for my first blog from Alaska, I’m too overwhelmed with the newness of it to be able to form complete thoughts of my impressions and...
View ArticleJuly 4th in the Arctic Circle
If the sun doesn’t go down at all during the summer months in the arctic, making July 4th fireworks an impossibility, and it’s too cold for swimming at the lake, how do the Inupiat Eskimos celebrate...
View ArticleOne on the Sun
The first night I was in the arctic, I turned the light out when I was ready for bed and was genuinely surprised that it didn’t get dark in the room. My mind is still adjusting to it. My friend hung a...
View ArticleIn the Kobuk Valley, Pt 1
When I came to Kotzebue to spend time working on my novel about Lydia, I came in the hopes that I would see grand Alaskan scenery while also having a quiet place to focus on writing. The land right...
View ArticleIn the Kobuk Valley, Pt 2
(Continued from yesterday’s post…) After taking a bunch of pictures of young Kiana in front of various signs around the town that is her namesake, we packed ourselves back into the plane and headed out...
View ArticleBerry Picking and Life
Picking berries on the tundra is like life. Draw your own conclusions… If I picked as many berries as I could all day for the rest of the summer, I would still barely make a dent in this one little...
View ArticleHalf-Marathon Volunteers
Quite a few cold and rainy days back, I said here on the blog that I wanted to run the half-marathon in Kotzebue. Well, that race was last Saturday, and I participated but did not run it. My excuse...
View ArticleAlaska to Texas
Summer ends quickly in the arctic. By early August clouds obscured the sun, and rainy days brought a close to my time spent on the tundra or the beach. For the last three weeks I got more writing done...
View ArticleMeanwhile…
So, I’m back in Texas for three weeks or so, and then I’m going to Wyoming. (Note to anybody keeping track: I said in the last post that I’m going to Wyoming, and that was how my mother learned about...
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