Category Archives: Alaska

Gravity Check on Aisle Stupid!

Rose and I were making dinner the other night when I did something careless and got a quick gravity check. It’s nice to know you can count on something, I thought as I cleaned the floor. In fact, I got a chuckle, thinking that gravity checks were one of the main reasons the TV program America’s Funniest Videos (AFV) exists. I hadn’t seen that show in a long time but had recently watched an episode and was reminded of just how ubiquitous, misjudged, and funny gravity can be.

This wasn’t my only recent encounter with excessively exuberant gravity. I had another lesson hammered home this fall that kept me from hunting.

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The Big Darkhole and the Master of Darkness

If you like night, we’ve got a deal for you. Longest nights of the year. Hardly any day.

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Our Snow Globe World

We have a lot of snow for so early in the year. I’ve been out snowshoeing. The woods are gorgeous.

Fairbanks, 7 Nov 2020.

Nice to snowshoe three days in a row. But our next winter storm is starting with light rain.

Of Moose, Rivers, and People

It’s taken my mind awhile to get to writing this post. There has been a surreal poignancy to the world for many months, causing normal activities to seem abnormal, bogged down, and harder to sustain. The COVID-19 pandemic and abysmal government leadership cause enormous stress, as does the unusually high degree of political divisiveness during this election year. Work levels have been high, too, and I hadn’t taken enough days off.

So when September came, and with it hunting season, I looked forward to getting away on a float trip with a couple of friends to hunt for moose. Just getting outside and off the grid would be therapeutic—and it was.

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