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It’s Memorial Day, a time for many to celebrate a long weekend, drink too much beer, and welcome summer. It’s all too easy to forget what this holiday is really about, and while [...]

It seemed so obvious once I realized it, but basically the thought is this: There are parts of my personality and patterns of behavior that I haven’t accessed for two and a half years. When [...]

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. [...]

And so there is walking. Always the walking–part of my daily movement, part of my daily practice as a writer, part of my thinking process. Sometimes it’s peaceful and wandering. Other [...]

Here in downtown Anchorage, it’s no secret that the house I’m staying in was formerly the home of the late Senator Ted Stevens. It’s also no secret that Stevens was the longest [...]

The other part of coming home is training full time in Okinawan Shuri Ryu Karate and Shintoyoshinkai Jiu Jitsu. I haven’t written about my passion for martial arts in quite some time, so [...]

Enter Phase 2 of Texas-prep mode: The Big Sort. We’ve seen this before, folks, and I’m going at it hardcore this week as I stack, sort, donate, shift, break down, mail, and condense. Now that I [...]

Dear Texas, Since it looks like we’ll be spending time together this fall, I thought I should introduce myself. You’ll know me first and foremost by my car, THE CLAW, which will cross [...]

I’ve been putting this post off for a long time, though the hatch marks sizzled into my brain over the past eight months with a permanence that still smarts. Nineteen months into my two-year [...]

When I broke my foot last fall, there’s a part of myself I had to steal away. At the peak of my own personal fitness, I’d just hiked over 100 miles in Alaska, flown to Michigan to pick up my car, [...]