While substitute teaching in Crooked Creek, Alaska this past January, I couldn’t help but notice the weather. Mind you, Crooked Creek (known to locals simply as “Crooked”) is deep in the interior of Alaska, winding along the banks of the Kuskokwim River. So why was it 40 degrees. . .? The duplex I was staying […]
My last day in Latest Tiny Village, Alaska, was the coldest one in my three weeks there, and the last day of school before the break. I had planned to make snow ice cream, come hell or high water, and with staunch encouragement from my obligatory cheering section, I made the preparations. I was accompanied […]
When I was a teenager in the 1970’s, I worked summers at the Triple A travel agency in Richmond, Virginia. I was reminded of this experience by a recent conversation regarding fall foliage. In my day, long before the advent of the internet, before Google Maps Lady was even a glint in a rich man’s […]