Greasy Bits
July 16, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
You cannot travel to the 49th State, even the supposedly “pristine” parts where the machinery is not in eyesight, without feeling the sludgey sloosh of Big Oil beneath the workings of nearly everything that goes on.
I would never presume as a tourist to try and explicate the complicated and...
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Almost there—Napa to Anchorage today
June 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
First can I say that C pulled up the seven-day forecast for Homer, Alaska on his iPhone yesterday afternoon as we were being driven to the most awesomest wedding ever in the history of nuptials and that we’re in for one entire week of straight rain?
Seriously, seven little crying cloud icons...
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You better listen to the radio
June 12, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I’m not being bossy, I’m quoting Elvis Costello.
Reading my various frantic bits, you’d never guess, but I do have a day job. And today—well, actually a couple of weeks ago, but airing today—I was on the radio.
Fun, in a slightly disembodied kind of way.
On my list of small anomalies of...
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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...
