At first I saw the man sitting with a friend in a couple of lawn chairs on the other side of the river. They were chatting under some...

One night many years ago I was watching the sky and saw a remarkable thing. All the stars were twinkling except one. It looked like a...

(Some Christmas humor: ho! ho! ho!) I’ve seen others wear interesting Christmas costumes too.  One Christmas, the little country church...

But this doesn’t have to be another Thanksgiving you nod off chatting with Aunt Ruth because you were up at dawn stuffing the turkey. ...

Mom was eating a personal-pan-pizza I bought her for lunch when she made her big announcement.  She said she wasn’t going to drive much...

A penguin was standing on the welcome mat when I opened my front door.  It was Halloween, and I had a fistful of miniature Snicker bars...

My son John is tall and handsome.  Smart too.  Lest you think I’m just a biased mother, I’m also going to say that John is so tone deaf...

(Who are the Millennials?  Why do techy people like nature?  How did fighting with our parents’ generation make us better?) “They may not...

(What’s in your toothpaste?  Why should we remember David Crosby?  Whose buried on our farm?  How many statues of Lenin are there in...

Before the coronavirus raised its ugly head and scared everyone away from the city, I lived there part-time while I taught at a local...

“Oh,” I laughed nervously, “I think I’ll pass”. My date, a thin hairy guy, reached across me to give the bong to the person sitting on...

(How long is the Alcan Highway?  When was it built?  What does the British Commonwealth have to do with the Alcan?) If life is a journey,...

The tall guard at the Canadian-Alaskan border crossing asked me to take off my sunglasses so he could compare my physical appearance to...

Suddenly I’m keenly aware of how much it takes to keep me operative. “Where’s your sense of adventure?” my husband chides me. Dale’s...

Alaska has been hit by global warming. Still, there’s a question as to whether Alaskans think that’s the problem.  My daughter commented...

“Oh mom, you are so competitive.  You know that right?” I shrugged.  She sounded like the mature adult next to my adolescent resistance....

“No you didn’t,” I took a sip of my hot coffee.  “You snored all night.” “That wasn’t a snore.  That was me grunting, trying to keep up...

Life gets real on the farm—meaning sometimes cruel.  Those of us who live more urbanely, shopping for hermetically sealed dairy, meat,...

Maybe my fondness for this book’s title has to do with the fact that I once was an easterner.  Like many transplants, I lived other...

About once a week, I wake up in the morning, drink a cup of coffee, and read a poem or two.  I like poetry:  wit and emotion condensed...