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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Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’
For the record…I don’t know how to get my blog to stop showing you TWO of the same picture in each post. Sorry. I don’t have mirrors in my house. I mean, there is a tall mirror in Robin’s room because, well, she’s seventeen and that is required. And we have a small hand mirror…
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Bear In The Backwoods
The scene… My two boys gathered blueberries from their secret patch near the road. Jars filled, they headed back towards the cabin, Anthony leading the way. Just before the sawmill, Anthony heard a loud noise rustling through the brush. Steven, behind him, startled at the noise and looked up to the face of a brown…
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Fishing For Elders –
Yesterday the kids and I found ourselves on the Ninilchik beach helping pull king salmon from the water to feed some of the village elders. Here on this same beach many years back, the natives of Ninilchik built fish traps and pulled nets much like us, feeding their families before there were grocery stores to…
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Just Another Scenic Sunday 5-18-14
BMOM Driving through British Columbia and Yukon Territory is like breaking into a zoo after hours and tearing down the fences. Animals roam everywhere, seeming to prefer the middle of the Alcan highway. It helps to break up the monotony of the 40 hours of driving it takes to make it from Seattle to the…
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May 17, 2014
After spending six months pretending we were on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, the adjustment back to cabin life has been a bit of shell shock. Frozen water pipes and batteries didn’t help to ease us back into the woods with grace, but rather encouraged tantrums and big-baby-fits by all. We’ve since gotten the…