Happy New Year, everyone! Today I woke up to almost a foot of slush over the roads. The yard is a mushy lake of melting snow, ice and water; I can barely walk to my car without drowning. And it’s so cloudy and misty that the mountains are hidden from view. A very moody and […]

Midnight tomorrow, Alaska time, is the last day to save big-time on pre-registration for the Mayor’s Marathon in Anchorage June 18. Here’s the dude who won both the Mayor’s and the Humpy’s marathons last year, Erik Johnson. And he lives in Seward! I see this dude out running in every kind of weather, putting in mega miles […]

Wow, what a week. Hope everyone had a great Christmas. This guy has been spending time with me. That would be my shaggy-haired son, C, who will soon be heading back up to Anchorage to stay with friends for the rest of his vacation break, sigh, sigh. I don’t blame him: There’s not much to do in […]

I got up ridiculously early yesterday morning, ate a rice cake with peanut butter (out of bread, sigh, sigh), walked the dog in the moonlight and stuffed the back of the car with emergency cold weather gear for my trip to Anchorage to pick up my son. Then I hit the gym for a short-but-killer-sweet treadmill […]

There I was, merrily going through my work email box and deleting as much as I could, when I came across a message from my friend J. J is a pilot who flies sightseeing tours up here in Seward in the summer and then scurries back to Colorado in the winter ’cause he can’t handle […]

Wow, what a busy weekend. Friday, my horrid diesel stove broke and leaked diesel fuel all over the living room. I came home to the most awful smell, like the grittiest, most disgusting gas station in the world. Yeah, that kind of smell. I frantically called Wally the Repairman, who rushed out with his son and […]

The wind died down a bit so I decided to hit the Iditarod Trail for an 8-miler. It was COLD. My head, torso, hands and feet were warm but my thighs and butt were freezing, even in my Brooks insulated running pants. I planned on running to where the trail meets Bear Lake Road but I […]

There I was, all cozy in the bathtub this afternoon reading a book I pulled from my bookshelves, when out popped this: Coupons my son had given me when he was how old, third grade? Fourth? I swear, I almost bawled. That same son is in his second year at Lewis & Clark College and […]

Woke up right after sunrise on Sunday. Um, that would be around 10:30 a.m. since we’re STILL losing daylight. Shame on me for sleeping so late, hee, hee. Here’s what I saw out the window: Yes, that would sunshine slanting against the mountain. Sunshine in Alaska means: Get thee ass outside pronto. This is because the sun is like […]

This is what occupied a good part of my week: The Living With Bears in Seward meeting, which I covered for the paper. We had a big problem with bears last summer and earlier this fall, with more bears than usual wandering down from the mountain to snack on our garbage. This past year four “problem” […]