Postcard from Under the Midnight Sun

I’m back in Fairbanks and life is bright! This morning, by 3:12, the sun was already pinking the sky into Continue reading →

I’m okay. I’m fine. I don’t need anything.

It’s naptime and we’ve just finished peeing, pooping and reading two chapters from a fat library book of Woody and Continue reading →

Bewitched by Birch I

It’s the last day of August and, like the Sandhill cranes who’ve already hightailed it out of the Alaskan Interior, Continue reading →

A Matter of Life and Death

Holy guacamole! Today’s been one of those emotionally confusing, wabi sabi, wibbly wobbly, don’t- know-if-we’re-coming-or-going kind of days here in Continue reading →

Why, Gooma?

 This just happened and I can’t resist sharing it. Driving home from the market, my two-year-old grandtoddler, r, is behind Continue reading →

Caution, Grandmas At Play

“What is it you’re doing?” Sophia asked. “I’m playing,” Grandmother said.  From The Summer Book by Tove Jansson While reading a Continue reading →