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 […]

Most of the snow melted today so I put on my trail shoes, called for the dog and headed out to Nash Road, to run on the Iditarod Trail to Bear Lake and back. The trail is through spruce (or douglas fur; I can never tell the difference) forests and weaves in and out along […]

I woke up to snow today, a slushy, wet snow that made walking the dog wet and gushy. This is what I will soon have to buy. I swore I wouldn’t, but it’s come to that: Yeah, ugly, functional and oh-so sexy. But the snow is lovely, especially against the water. The air is wet and […]

My dog is smarter than I am. She knew, when I tried to coax her out to run in the pouring rain, that it was going to be a miserable and thankless outing. She huddled on the porch. She refused to budge. So I headed out for a supposedly easy 5-mile loop alone. By the time I hit the […]

My weekend was spent doing this: Editing Chapter Four of my novel. It’s a cumbersome, hair pulling, agonizing process, and the next person who says, “Oh, I could write a novel if I could only find the time,” I shall smack alongside the head. I also ran Lost Lake Trail but forgot to charge my digital camera batteries, […]