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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Sorry in a hurry
March 15, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I was raised Catholic and Irish, eating meat and potatoes for suppah every night (’cept of course on Fridays in Lent).
I’ve moved away from all of that to one degree or another. But like a salmon back from the sea, once a year I return to the karmic/gastro landscape of my birth. Which is a...
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Speaking of journeys…
March 10, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
What, you’re kicking around the Internets reading this and that when you should be working? If so, head over to Brain,Child, where, among a lot of awfully good writing, Jen and Steph were peachy enough to post my essay about a long, long bus ride I took with C.
If anyone reading is from...
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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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Two Questions
February 28, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
1) Chowing down on Mexy food with Beulah last weekend, this came up: “What is the most valuable thing in your house?”
We’re not talking 401K or your car or the various bits of trophy jewelry on your bod. We’re talking in your house. And we’re talking cash value, not sentimental: what did you...
