Remember how last week I warned you that I wasn’t going to be posting as much because I was going to try to start writing some non-blog stuff? Well, I […]

Bunch of folks contacted me offline to inquire about the J7 situation. Yeah, it’s all good – as far as I can tell, everyone’s made peace, and some good may […]

Okay – I finally got the heck out of the station for something other than my daily trek out to Summer Camp (or sledding, or XC skiing out to The […]

Sigh – feeling that impending crash of loneliness. Helped host the open mic here last night out in the Summer Camp Jameway, and got quite the rock star reception. Was […]

Ach – I forgot to post pictures of our little Hanukkah celebration. Zondra, Michelle, me and Isaac with the makeshift menorah Improvisation under necessity: M&Ms for coins, and a dreidelfabricated […]

Yeah, I said I was going to stop posting every day, but it’s been a newsworthy couple of days – Michelle and I started a fire in the galley last […]

Remember how I mentioned The Traverse a while back? Well, they’re at the foot of the Leverette glacier now, and have been stuck there for a couple of days. Crazy […]

Okay, I got a ton of email that can be summarized “WTF sturgeon!?!?”  (i.e. “What’s the frozen sturgeon?”).  I figure I’ve got to offer some elaboration. The ice tunnels branch […]

It’s been one month today – since I stepped out onto the ice runway at McMurdo and into this crazy world of Antarctic life. Seems like a lifetime, and still […]

(Or, “Chapter 57, in which Mapcon makes me sad“) Okay, I promise, I really promise, that I’m going to start getting outdoors and posting stories and pictures of penguins and […]