Ever since Caleb and I talked about the Alaska Registered Sex Offenders page I go and check it once in a while. Usually I forget that it exists. And then, suddenly, someone I see on the street or some weird incident reminds me that it's there. It's voyeuristic to be sure, but it seems like a good thing to do. I live a sweet sheltered life. I' ( Read more... )

What a gloriously tenuous thing a good drunken night is. All the ingredients have to be apportioned just right. If one of them goes south at the wrong moment, what was headed for a good strong outcome can turn into a huge mess in a matter of seconds ( Read more... )

i wish that i didn't wear my heart on my sleeve so much. why can't i just let things go? water under the bridge and all that jazz? but when somebody has hurt me, i can't help it. i can't start over and just pretend like it never happened, i need an explanation, or at the very least, i need to tell them how i feel make sure that it's all out ( Read more... )

It's Captain Mo that keeps Kirk coming back to the Amazon time and time again, that and the Amazon jungle. Kirk has been down 12 times now, 10 of his trips with Captain Mo ( Read more... )

So we're leaving for the Amazon on Friday. I was supposed to hear back about my application to the University of Alaska Anchorage's low-residency MFA program in Fiction sometime this week. So I shot off a quick email to ask if they'd be willing to email me their decision. Within two minutes I got a phone call ( Read more... )

I listen to a wide smattering of NPR every day. Usually pieces of On Point, Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered ( Read more... )

hottest thing in standard press.

graduate inspired spread in harper's bazaar

everybody needs a tattoo jumpsuit!


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"Nevertheless, Darwin noted, 'there is in this respect one strange anomaly; namely, that when frightened it [marine iguanas of the galapogos islands which feed on sea-weed found on the seafloor] will not enter the water.' He didn't get that on hearsay. He cornered an animal, grabbed it, and threw it into a large tide pool left by the ebbing sea ( Read more... )

beautiful stuffed bird


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