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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 [...]

In 1775, Don Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra first spotted Southeast Alaska’s premier volcano from his ship Sonora and wrote that there was a mountain “of the most regular an [...]

This photo collage is long overdue, dear readers, but many thanks for your emails and social networking these past few weeks that have made those late-night posts all the more doable. Alaska is [...]

One sentence announces the possibility of the next. You get one God-given sentence for every story you write. The rest you have to chisel on your own. Work from a first line you can believe in. [...]