Zero and Starting to Snow

Yes, it’s cold. Temperatures in Whitehorse hover around 0F. (You read that right, zero Fahrenheit. A reminder: 32F is freezing.) Temps are predicted to drop in the next few days. And yes, it’s a dry cold, it’s arid, my eyes itch and my nose aches and my lips are like sandpaper. To go outside, I …


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The Same River Twice

He was tall and good looking and had what the Brits call a public school accent. That means he went to an expensive prep school where he learned to talk pretty. He liked to dance to pop music and to drink beer and he liked to travel. His father wanted him to train to be …


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Gone Fishin’

I’m putting the blog on the back burner just for a short bit to: Work through revisions of a longer piece I wrote while I was in Hawaii Take the reins as the lead user experience designer on a website project Battle with the brutal cold and flu season putting North America in the full …


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This is What 49 Looks Like

… if you’re me and you’re not wearing any makeup per usual and you’re on the windy 43rd floor balcony of a Waikiki apartment building and you play the ukulele and you wear glasses and you could use a haircut and you have been on seven continents and you are a writer and a musician, …


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