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” […]

I was going to cross train at the gym tonight but it was so clear outside and the sky was so blue that I just had to tie on my running shoes and head outside. I ran around 3:45 p.m., right as the sun was setting. I choose the Lowell Point route, which is 9.1 miles […]

Here’s the guy (gal?) that was watching me through the window this morning as I sweated over a loonnnggg news story I had to write about awful things like property taxes and general bonds and financial reports: Ahhhhhhh! But the eagle really cheered me up. Think it was smirking at me. OK, really, I think it was eyeing the cats curled […]

I’m propped up on the couch with my trusty laptop catching up on work. I work at home so this is what I see from my living room window: It’s kinda hard to work. I just want to be up in the mountains but alas, too much copy to write today. When I look out […]

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 […]