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Wrangell Mountains Center, writer’s workshop, McCarthy, Alaska, August 2009 I believe that concludes the Alaska writing for the time being, though I confess I have a year-long Alaska-focused [...]

8/18-22 Days 20-24 My remaining days in Alaska were spent traveling – a full day’s drive from McCarthy to Anchorage, a half day flight from Anchorage to Seattle, then a full days’ flight from [...]

8/17 Day 19 As promised, today’s post is an excerpt from the personal essay I worked on all week in McCarth, Alaska at the Wrangell Mountains Center. I can’t put the whole thing up here because [...]

8/16 Day 18 Life at the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska, is pretty sweet. That sweetness has as much to do with fine summer weather as it does the people who came to participate in [...]

Day 17 cont’d: Hike onto Root Glacier Our hike began parallel to the colorful moraine shown here. This photo was taken just above the foss looking across the moraine where Root Glacier and [...]

Continuing to catch up with the blog…there are a lot of new posts lately so if you’ve been absent, scroll around and see the new images and stories. I’m back in NC and will be posting regularly [...]

There are two posts today, so scroll around and check out all the pics and new writing! 8/13 Day 15 As I look around, I see the moraine floor in Technicolor. Glowing greens, deep reds, eggplant [...]

[Continuing to catch up on the Alaska trip, today’s update explains the trip to McCarthy and entrance into the Wrangell Mountains writing experience. Tomorrow’s post will include an excerpt of an [...]

I went off the radar again, this time to attend the residency at the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska—outdoor showers, solar power, no running water, etc. But I’ll be catching up on [...]

[I hesitate to post this since I’m feeling a little flatline today, but I’m going to go ahead and at least preserve these notes for now and maybe come back to them later on my own. [...]