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Out of the Office: Solace in skating
I’m used to the cold, but Alaska’s darkness has proved difficult to get used to.
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Out of the Office: For Alaska Bush cred, head out and harvest a Christmas tree
If you don’t have your own tree lot, harvest trees on public lands.
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Out of the Office: Falling in love one snowflake at a time
Do you want to know what I’ve been looking forward to the most since moving to Alaska?
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Out of the Office: Clearing the trail
One of the benefits of growing old is waking up and, despite having done nothing particularly noteworthy the…
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Out of the Office: To everything, there is a season
We don’t really have “seasons” where I’m from. It stays an amicable 75 degrees and sunny pretty much…
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Fall in Alaska is subtle but fabulous
On my mother’s side I come from a long line of New Englanders, the kind of people for…
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Out of the Office: Finally feeling at home
My partner’s family came into town recently. While the thought of hosting in-laws would make many people I…
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Out of the Office: Best-laid plans
The plan was for the family to meet in Colorado to try and summit one of the state’s…
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Wishing y’all well
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be “well” lately. Like, what does that actually…
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Out of the Office: The view from Skyline
In some ways, the isolation of the pandemic has proved even more harsh for me.
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Out of the Office: Camping goals: Turn off the demands of work
‘Stand and stare’ a good motto for becoming a power camper.
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Out of the Office: Finding Home in Alaska
“The story is it’s dark, it’s cold, it’s unfriendly and there are wild animals that’ll eat you.”
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Tangled Up in Blue: Good Grief
They say that grief washes over you in waves, but I just jumped in.
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Out of the Office: The weekend
By the second week of March, I had pretty much forgotten about the dry cabin I’d booked for…
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Out of the Office: Up the Alcan
Five days and nearly 2,500 miles: That’s how long I traveled to get to Alaska.
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Out of the Office: Living in Alaska is a lifetime in learning
From boots to parkas, there’s lots to figure out about surviving in the Last Frontier
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Out of the Office: For good, for now
“Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.” If that figure immediately transports you to the famous number from…
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Out of the Office: Warming up to masks
A March 3 lead paragraph in a news story in The New York Times asked, “When can I…
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Out of the Office: Water taxi talking
Reporters spend a lot of time talking to people: people they don’t know, people they do know, people…