Trail to Nowhere

When I clip into my skis and hit the trails out my door I know I’m not headed far. The trails, which I’ve being skiing on for ten years, loop around and cross each other, and sometimes I don’t know what trail I’m on or which direction I’m heading but I know that I’m on [...]

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Mangoes and Moose Meat

  I’m almost done reading Drop City by T. C. Boyle. It’s an intense, and often hilarious, National Book Award Finalist, story of a 1970’s free-love, it’s-all-cool-and-hip commune that relocates from California to the roadless banks of the Yukon River. Some unexpected alliances form between two very different back to the land movements. A month ago I [...]

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From The Woodpile

Wood is the main fuel that heats our house so I spend quite a bit of time doing wood-related chores from cutting down trees, to hauling wood in a wheel barrow, or a sled, to splitting and stacking wood, and yes, burning it. Over the years I’ve used the woodpile as a place to think. [...]

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Round Table with Veteran Agent, Kendra Marcus

  A week ago I had the pleasure of facilitating a discussion with Kendra Marcus of Bookstop Literary Agency. Kendra was in Fairbanks visiting her daughter and offered a free question and answer session to any and all writers. Kendra contacted Alaskan author Deb Vanasse through SCBWI and Deb (who is one of my long distance [...]

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Honest Scrap With a Twist

I’ve got a few awards to accept and pass on. Deb over at Ranch Girl Ramblings, gave me this one. Thanks, Deb! I’m pretty happy today because I can actually use my computer. It was invaded by a nasty virus which I tried to fight, but my outdated weapons just drove it in deeper. So [...]

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