Down to Zero
June 08, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Way back in February when I booked our now rapidly approaching Alaska trip, I was sure as shootin’ I’d have a couple of juicy writing assignments under my belt to finance this thing by the actual time of departure, if not a book deal.
In between then and now, the economy tanked and tanked and...
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Worst. Blogger. Ever.
May 28, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
How bad is it? It’s this bad: my teenaged child emailed me the other day from the “contact me” section of my own web said and said it was lame that I haven’t been blogging. That bad.
I know I’ve been gone a long, long time. I wasn’t kidnapped—I was run over, mauled, spit out, and left for dead...
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Two Duhs and a Ruh-Roh
March 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
I imagine Alaskans, especially those in the tourism business, spend their long dark winter months drinking and swapping tales about how incredibly stupid people from the Lower 48 can be.
I am still months away from setting foot on Alaskan soil and already I have committed a couple of whoppers....
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Politicians, 1 Polar Bears, 0
March 09, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
Here’s a nice headline . . .
Alaska politicians oppose plan to protect polar bears
My head has been all up in Alaska these past weeks. You start to nose around here and there online, looking at this or that lodge or guided tour or whatever, you send out a few tentative e-mail queries, and...
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Coincidences 1 & 2
February 18, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, The Home Front
* How cool is this? The superfabulous Peabody Essex Museum, which I have written about elsewhere, is sponsoring a talk on “Keeping the fire in the dark moon times.” Guess which three dark-moon states, out of the 50, they’ve chosen to highlight? Massachusetts. Alaska. Hawaii. My states, all.
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