Oct 4, 2015 | Blog
“The search is the meaning, the search for beauty, love, kindness and restoration in this difficult, wired and messy era of ours. The miracle is that we are here, no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still...Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
The sky has cleared and there’s frost on the rose hips and it promises to be a lovely evening to hang out downtown for the First Friday arts celebration, and there’s a ton happening. 5-7 the KHNS annual meeting and art print show is at the museum....Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
It’s October, and that means Alaska Book Week is coming up. I used to be able to name the handful of great Alaska writers, now there are so many I can’t even fit all my contemporary books by Alaskan authors on the shelves that I tried to reserve for them,...Sep 30, 2015 | Blog
Think of this as field notes from our moose camp– or at least how the Lendes got our moose. I imagine there are as many different ways as there are hunters. I took pictures of how my husband and I cut a whole moose into pieces and carried it out of the...Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Yes, we got a moose and we are happy. We hunted hard and it’s not easy. He had three obvious brow tines, and is now all cut up and hanging in the garage. I love moose meat, and knowing exactly where my food comes from. We just returned from Fish& Game...Sep 25, 2015 | Blog
19 moose have been taken so far, and as Chip says, none of them are ours. But we are off to try again this weekend, which is why I will miss my friend Seth Kantner’s talk at the library at 3 on Saturday, but you should go, Seth will be reading from his new...