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  Birds are coming to my feeder by the droves. I may have jumped the gun on putting it up. I’m still getting used to life in Anchorage, and one of the changes is that you’re not supposed to feed the birds until after the bears go into hibernation. That’s if the bears go into […]

  All my life, people have told me, “You need to read this.” I’m going to tell you a secret. On the one hand, I like book recommendations and I seek them out, as well as make them. On the other hand, the moment they’re too strong or the same few books get mentioned over

  Do Not Confuse News with Fiction by Anne Coray Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot the past few years about truth and fiction. With the rise of questionable news sources and conspiracy theories, one has to ask whether fiction can stand on its own anymore. The idea of “fake” news somehow

Rosy Posits Birds. Words. We search for both. Sometimes we find them. And occasionally they are rather good ones, subjectively at least. I like my taste in the birds I see and hear, and I’ve learned to value every word that I write. But when the object is for many to enjoy as well, there’s

Before sifting through today’s blog photographs, I put the kettle on to boil and drop a bag of Barry’s Irish Breakfast Tea into a mug. Then I start the music from the Chieftains first album playing on the stereo. Aki follows me around the kitchen after the water boils. Something about the smell of Irish

Many of my book coaching clients are currently seeking agens for finished manuscripts or, in the case of some pursuing hybrid publishing, already in the pipeline with pub dates set for their work. The most common comment I hear, whether a new author hopes to be published in 2022, 2023 or later, is “It’s so

I had a fun, and decidedly Alaskan experience, when I saw that one of the characters in my forthcoming novel, Lost Mountain, shares the name of a real guy who lives in Southeast. His name is Mike Trotter, and I ran across the name a few years ago in the Letters section of an issue

Most airplanes landing in Juneau pass by the Mendenhall Glacier with landing wheels extended. In this time of Covid, passengers flying from outside the state have to submit to testing and live quarantined until test results arrive. Government experts are expecting a new, post Thanksgiving rise in Corvid cases in our state, increasing stress on

Dear 49 Writers Community, The year 2020 has been challenging on so many levels, for reasons with which we are all well familiar. Yet through it all, Alaskan writers did what you do best: you wrote. Despite the discouraging and exhausting days of a year of chaotic extremes, you found time to put words to

I’m sitting in the back yard of our house in Phoenix, homesick for my wife and cats, but grateful not to be in Anchor Point too, because the 65 degree sunshine here makes the countdown of days to my impending neck surgery a little more pleasant than the January freeze/thaw cycle ongoing at home might.