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Friday morning, I woke early to blue-infused blackness–dawn in Sitka. Ravens called, snow unfurled across the campus walkways like a blanket, and I breathed deeply strolling down to the [...]

A big part of being Writer-in-Residence for The Island Institute is participating in public events. If you missed my 10-minute Raven Radio interview upon arriving in Sitka, that’s archived [...]

Don’t try to do the math on this one, but if you want to get a sense for just how many inlets and bays there are in Southeast Alaska, consider this: the panhandle of Southeast Alaska is [...]

It somehow escaped me on this most recent leg of my journey to post photos of the writer-in-residence digs. Over the past 25 months I’ve stayed in houses, off-the-grid cabins, residence [...]

Where did time go on this island? Caught up in “old man’s beard” as it dangles from these hemlocks? Eddying in whorls of ancient wood? Creeping down veins of moss? History [...]

Thanks to the helpful Directors at The Island Institute, on Friday I got to tour the Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) fish packing plant. It’s winter, which is prime time for [...]

Hark! There be sunshine alighting on this island! And so it goes, that when the clouds part all tasks must come to rest and any good Sitkan must attend to the opportunities immediately at hand: [...]

I’ve walked at dawn and midday, walked at twilight and late at night. I’ve walked in rain, snow, and sun; along sidewalks, groomed trails, the rocky shore. Still, no matter where I go [...]

When you hear folks say that Alaska is all light half the year and all dark the other half of the year, what you’re hearing is an exaggeration of a basic astronomical fact: in winter, the [...]

On third day, there is sunlight and my is it worth the wait! This photos was taken around 10:30am. There’s nothing I can say that can top what John Muir wrote in Travels to Alaska about his [...]