Yesterday I took a slow, needed walk in the woods. It was slow because my eight-year-old walked behind me drinking his apple cider the whole way. (That was the only way I was able to get him to walk in the woods with me.) It was much needed, because I have been dealing with all …
Lady Corona in the garden with the bats
Art by Sharry Wright, Game of Clue Covid edition 2020 Humans have been naughty to the earth, and earth has sent us to our rooms. If my blog posts could get as many shares as the coronavirus, I’d be stylin’. The house next to my daughter’s kindergarten teacher has put up signs saying THE END …
Poetry in the Time of Covid
In Eastern medicine, they believe that grief settles in the lungs. Can poetry help excavate grief in order to allow for deeper, fuller breaths?
Costa and the Honeys do the Safety Dance, COVID version
The Alaska State Folk Festival was canceled this year, but weird is still alive. Wednesday, April 15, would normally mark the day that Collette Costa and her band the High Costa Livin' would bring down the house on the Folk Fest main stage with back up dancers, Off the Hook Honeys, throwing down the moves. …
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Love & other hard things
One out of seven jobless, Venezuela size statistics, but the Tongass is alive, listen— the wilderness so thick, I could lean into this. No helicopters to spoil, and there’s a part of me that likes to do hard things— like fool myself into jumping off this cliff sixty feet into the drink, …