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Sometimes, when the goin’ gets slow (and the chainsaw chokes on the ethanol in the gas mixture) the only thing to do is set everything else aside and focus on a task you can start and [...]

{This somewhat follows from yesterday’s post…} So sometimes the only thing left to do is get out there and live it up and throw it all into the air like you just don’t care. [...]

I know I’m well past jet-lag and should be acclimatized and climatized and normalized and you name it by now…but the fact of the matter is, spending 9 weeks in Alaska (during one of [...]

Of course the other part of restoration and remodeling is frequently feeling as though you’re moving at a snail’s pace. Today we wanted to buck up the rotten widowmaker trunk and roll [...]

As the story goes, in December we bought the 31′ Airstream Sovereign (1971) for a song, but we knew we’d find surprises. First surprise? The bathroom floor was rotten. Completely. [...]

It’s been a restful week off the map and I’m 5,000 miles from last week’s parting post. What had been a winter world of Alaskan white and deep-black-evergreen is now the pale [...]

I’ve been blogging here at The Writing Life since July 29, 2005 and even got interviewed for my 6th “blogiversary” recently on Praeterita. Consistency is the name of my game, [...]

Today I head back “down south,” as they say in Alaska–meaning the lower 48–and it’s always a time of reflection for me. My first trip in 2009 was a 3-week whirlwind. [...]

The Anchorage Crud (yes, it’s a proper noun now) is officially tedious and long lasting. Four days of fever? I don’t think that’s happened since I was a kid. Oh, I had high [...]

Apologies for the lack of posts the past two days–a virtual rarity for The Writing Life. I have been struck by the incessant Anchorage crud and laid up in bed for 72 hours. I will go teach [...]