Heller’s Tale – now on Amazon.com!
Hey all – many many thanks for your patience as I work my way through all the jumbled writing (and non-writing) projects I’ve been juggling these past few months. I’ve […]
Category Archives: pole
More Antarctic Fiction: Tales From the Ice
“It didn’t matter whether you had a story to tell or just wanted to sit back and listen to somebody else’s tale of wonder and woe over a shot of bad whiskey: Summer Camp Lounge was the place to go for stories. “Summer Camp” was a story in itself…
Auspicious Beginnings
I’m not a believer in auspicious beginnings. I mean, I like it when things go smoothly, but it always puts me on my guard. If anything, a difficult start comforts […]
Chalk up One More Lost Soul
I love telling the story about how – how many years ago was it? – Beth and I were sitting there on the floor of a friend’s house and I […]
The Season that Wasn’t
Way back when, I wrote about not wanting to jinx my chances for a job at the South Pole by writing about it. Well, apparently, by not writing about it, […]
The Day Sleeper (South Pole retrospective)
[I came across this from my stash of “unpublished South Pole Journal notes” and figured enough time has passed that I can post it safely. Those of you who haven’t […]
Bragging Rights
Sit back for a few minutes and put yourself on autopilot while I toot my own horn a bit. Humble (ahem) as I am, I really can’t resist crowing about […]
The adventure continues…
Chiounard says that the word “adventure” is overused. Something like “when everything goes to hell in a handbasket, that’s when the adventure starts.” The adventure keeps rolling right along here. […]
Northbound
Souvenirs – our room key from the Grand Chancellor We’re in Christchurch briefly, between flights that will take us on to Auckland later this evening. Have I mentioned how Air […]
longer update, now that I’ve got a keyboard
Okay, to recap, now that I’m ensconced at an internet cafe with a real keyboard: We were on the outskirts of CHCH when the earthquake hit, with our rain gear, […]
