Autumn is its own bundle of joyful activities. Yes, there’s the inevitable, annual decay and dying, the flight of sun and warmth as we bolster and brace ourselves for the […]

I hadn’t meant to leave y’all in Nome without at least giving a lead up to The Next Big Crazy Thing I’d Committed To. But here we are on the tail of that, running headlong into the Next Next Thing, and I never even told you what the thing in the middle was…

The ship sang us to sleep our last night aboard. I’ve written about this before – Sikuliaq’s particular song, sometimes one note, sometimes two, coming up so slowly that you might not notice it at first beneath the everpresent gurgle of plumbing and hiss of forced air….

We had about an hour of glorious weather turning the corner through Unimak Pass. There’d been fog for most of the last day and night, with our sleep constantly punctuated […]

We’re in that state that evokes the (possibly apocryphal) assertion from Anacharsis that “There are three kinds of people – those dead, those alive, and those at sea.” The ship […]

Such a strange series of double takes on the way outbound this morning. Pull my pocketknife out to put in…no, I don’t need to do that. Gauge the level in […]

I know I’ve written about this before, but I’m on a plane, and am apparently too cheap to spring for the inflight internet to check. No, I’m going to claim […]

Heads up that this is really just a what-I-did-this-past-week ramble without any underlying theme or clever message. I’ve just been in Colorado this past week, catching up with old friends […]

Last fall I wrote about being halfway down the slippery slope of becoming a bonafide “singer-songwriter.”  How’s that going, you ask? Well, I’ve already had two paying gigs this month, […]

One of the insidious downsides of social media, for a writer, is that by letting you dribble narrative out into bite-sized snapshots, it saps your need to keep it all […]