Another day of rain. And rain. And even more rain. The dog and I sat inside, waiting for it to let up so that we could run the trails. It got dark instead. So I decided to eat dinner. Then, of course, it stopped raining. By the time my meal had digested, it was 9 […]

A bad day of proofing my novel. One of those days when I’m sure that it’s shit, when every word feels awkward, when reading over what I’ve written makes me feel unsure and self-conscious, the way I used to feel walking the hallways in high school. One of those days when that voice shouts in my head: […]

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 […]