Life looks a little different these days. The kids grew up. The nest emptied. I’m still writing about things that happen in between the road, Alaska, family, grief, adventure and figuring out what comes next. REWRITE THIS INTO MY OWN WORDS.
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Dreams Delayed
People always remember, with clarity, the moment their lives changed. I remember the moment mine didn’t. In the spring of ’03 I had just finished up the third year of my writing degree at Linfield College. My fellow students were planning their summer vacations, jobs, going home to a family. I was raising one. One…
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This Blog Is Not Real »
Last night a young lady with a history much like my children’s wrote me a message and asked for advice. But before she asked, she spent several paragraphs telling me why she wasn’t worthy of my time. “…as if reading your blog somehow makes me worthy of placing myself in your life,” she said. As…
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A Home In The Mountains
Grandpas Resting place We came to this land in June of this year, in the midst of a heatwave. We thought we could make a home from the dust but we left after less than two weeks, frustrated. Our plans foiled. Maybe it wasn’t time yet. Maybe we wimped out. And so we left. For…
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South From Alaska
We drove south from Alaska near the end of May this year on a whim. Maybe I’m just tired of the winters. The darkness gets to me. Or maybe it’s just a classic mid-life crisis and the husband and I have sunk at the same time. Because in April when I said, “Let’s go south,”…
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Stalk The Six Door!
Tell us where you spotted us and share your photo in the comments! When an entire group of people standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon stopped, turned, and as a group began photographing my truck, I began to think, “Perhaps a huge advertising opportunity is being overlooked…” And since thousands of people have…
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A Room With No View
Destini and Robin…ready for anything… I hate those arrogant ‘update’ blogs. As if the world is waiting, on the edge of their seat, to learn the fate of that once frequent blogger who mysteriously went AWOL from the Facebook feed. But alas…here I lie, tapping away at the keyboard. So much to say… so little…
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What They Did To Me Bum…
If you’ve not been following the sage of the bear/boys/bum injury, here’s a couple of links: Bear In The Back Woods Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’ Last week I went in for an MRI at the request of our local clinic doc here in Ninilchik who took one look at this bruising and said, “How long…