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This. Is. Hard-working. Breathtaking. Happiness. Thanks for following this part of my three-year journey this month in Sitka, Alaska. I’m travelling from residency to teaching gig to [...]

Here’s a video clip of my very brief “Farewell Meditation” essay as an offering to the community of Sitka, Alaska. Using some of the material culled from this blog, I tried to [...]

Writers often talk about living two ways: as a fly on the wall or by total immersion. The best writers I know can function in both realms and write about their experiences equally well because of [...]

It reads almost like a poem in another language, one where water can chop and swell or wind can cause whitecaps. I hear the marine forecast on Raven Radio or check it online against my Southeast [...]

I’ve been keeping a little list as I explore and delight in Sitka and Southeast Alaskan culture these past few weeks. As with any outsider looking in, it’s easy to misjudge a few [...]

I have walked the loop in Totem Park (Sitka National Historic Park) almost every day since my arrival and never tired if its straight-as-an-arrow trees, its rocky viewpoints, and its quiet [...]

It’s a small world when you’re 4,000 miles from home in a town of 8,000 people and you run into someone at one of your events who knows Hannah Branch Road in Celo, North Carolina [...]

There’s one week left of deer season here in Sitka and it seemed only fitting that when an opportunity to go hunting arose, I should take it. We took half a day and six miles and walked a [...]

Here’s a story that isn’t mine, but that I caught the conclusion of, and so it’s one I get to tell: A few fellas were out hunting on Kruzof Island on November 11th–the [...]

Some days this work feels as simple as an honest calculation. You wake, you stretch, you drink coffee. Then the mind joins words into sentences, like winter’s gently accumulating snow [...]