I drove with a friend into Fairbanks today to do some shopping. I hadn’t been shopping in weeks- I’d been living off roadkill caribou stew and my housemate’s non-organic potatoes, and the odd organic cabbage, the size of a grapefruit, that another friend had picked up for me. Then today we left early and drove … Continue reading the well
Alaska
Protected: Hair, freezer burnt ice-cream, and lavendar baths
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Protected: The Marble.
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Spring. Abandoned houses.
I went walking today in the woods beyond the village. The moss is green again, and the leaves on the cranberries too. . There are catkins on the willows, suddenly. . The village where I work is full of abandoned houses, their doors unlocked. . . . . . I like to go inside, sometimes, … Continue reading Spring. Abandoned houses.
Protected: Saturday in the land of no particulates.
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My child army vs. all the soggy vomit cartons of the world
It's eleven at night and the sun is just setting. Some nameless forest bird is chirping, and the newly born insects are batting at the window-screen. It was seventy-five degrees today, like instant summer, no time for foreplay when you've only got twelve frost-free weeks. I wanted to do so many things when I got … Continue reading My child army vs. all the soggy vomit cartons of the world
Anchorage
In Anchorage, it’s really spring. All the snow is gone, and the air smells like dirt. And the sea, too, although I cannot see it, beyond these dead potted plants and ratty driveway, ground down by winter’s ice-age of weather. I can smell the sea, though, and hear the seagulls. I know it’s close to … Continue reading Anchorage
Listen listen! I like you!
One half hour till radio on the internet. Six pm Alaska time, 7 pacific, ten eastern, etc. Wholewheatradio.com. Stories and interviewz live from Talkeetna, Alaska!
bears bears bears
Some fun facts about bears in Alaska. Of the statements below, two are false. Can you guess which ones? A. There are 300 black bears and 60 grizzly bears living in Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. B. There are an estimated 30,000 brown bears (grizzlies) and 100,00-200,000 black bears in the state of Alaska. C. In … Continue reading bears bears bears
woodsponies
Today we ate a late lunch of re-heated pinto beans and set out, sleds in tow, to move spruce rounds from the edge of the oil road. There are two sleds, both black plastic, one large, one smaller. One holds five spruce rounds, stacked in a pyramid, tilting and tipping on the packed-snow inclines of … Continue reading woodsponies
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