It’s Cyber Monday! For those of us living in small Alaskan towns with limited shopping and NO running shops, this is almost as exciting as Christmas. Truly! I had to work all day and am just getting down and dirty right now. The big moral dilemma, of course, is this: Because I have to cover […]

I am SO excited! I tapped into Ryan Hall’s Garmin readout and realized that one day last week we both ran at almost the exact same time. Here’s my man Ryan at the Boston Marathon. Note his time, a mere 13 minutes slower than my fastest half-marathon time. This is another sign, ’cause 13 has […]

Hooray! I made it through Black Friday without buying a thing. When you consider I’m living in a small town with a nothing but a Safeway, hardware store, a general store and a bunch of tourist shops, that’s not saying much. A cool thing is that except for the Subway, there are NO fast food places […]

I swear, this is quickly becoming my favorite trail run in Seward. I still miss the Chugach Mountain trails up around Anchorage so, so much, but Lost Lake is getting to me. It was a bit rough Sunday: The bottom portion was slick with patches of bare ice, and the upper areas had deep snow. There […]

This is what I did Friday: I left my pushing-for-deadline work stories on my desk and headed out to walk around the neighborhood with The Beebs, stopping to feed the carrots I paid waaaayyy too much for at the local Safeway to my best horse buds. This one is my favorite: How can you not love a […]

Woke up happy today, for no particular reason except the sun was shining and as soon as I opened my eyes I could see the mountains. Ate some oatmeal and took the dog for a walk through the forest trail that leads up to Mt. Marathon base. Love how peaceful and quiet it is, and […]

The wind! Is wild tonight, rocking the house so that the windows shake and the dog cowers beneath the desk. It seeps in through the windowpanes, chilling the house and causing my plants to shiver, poor things. But the night is clear, the moon almost full, the mountains rising up in the background in white-coated […]

It was literally a blue day today. This is what the bay looked like when I walked the dog this afternoon: Everything was tinted a lavender-blue fog. Very dreamy and still, with the tide coming in, and all around were crows and ravens; they were so near we could hear the sounds of their wings flapping. […]

The mission: To insert 24 screws in my trail shoes The reason: Because the roads look like this (i.e., so I don’t fall on my ass running on ice) The shoes: My dirty and beloved Adidas trail runners. LOVE these babies and just bought another pair. They’e actually a mid-level shoe but the best thing to run […]

So there I was, rushing around the Seward Community Library trying to print out the latest section of my novel before closing (out of printer cartridge and nowhere to buy it down here, sigh, sigh), when I look down and see a stack of discarded books, with this one the top: Yes, an old copy […]