As I sign off here as January blogger for 49 Writers, I’d like to thank Deb Vanasse and Linda Ketchum for giving me this opportunity. Thank you for your patience and thoughts and communication – it has been a true privilege. Through the blog comments, and individual emails, I also feel like I’ve started to […]
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This week saw the last of our 2014 Resolve to Write gatherings and the first get-together of 49 Writers members and other writers in Mat-Su. Members from Houston, Wasilla, Chickaloon, and Palmer gathered at the welcoming home of Debra McKinney and Paul Morley for an informal potluck and to share of the joys and challenges
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One of my first memories of arriving in Sitka, Alaska, was walking by the water down to the Totem Park Visitor’s Center and reading an exhibit label describing the arts culture of the Tlingits, the indigenous people of the Alexander Archipelago. The label pointed out that the arts and storytelling tradition was so strong among
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I just got back from walking the dog. We went down Wayne Place, along Lake Merritt, then through the park where they don’t allow dogs – Oakland police, unlike San Francisco police, have better things to do – and back again. My first time out of this chair in a long, long time. When I
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Three days ago, just before midnight, I landed in Oakland airport – Burger King dark and gated, antiseptic smell of the bathrooms, harsh sodium parking lot lights – after three weeks home in Sitka, on Baranof Island, in Southeast Alaska. My days were spent doing chores on my old tugboat (where I lived before receiving a
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Don’t miss the very last 49 Writers event of 2013: a New Year’s Eve poetry reading by Joan Naviyuk Kane on Tuesday Dec. 31, 8pm, 120 West 11th Avenue, to mark the release of Hyperboreal, her second award-winning book. Joan will read selections from this new collection after we enjoy music from Alaskan songwriter Michael Howard. Doors open at 7pm.
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Thanks to the two dozen people who braved Saturday’s scary roads to attend the excellent Reading & Craft Talk by David Abrams on “How to Write a War Story.” David was happy to be back in Anchorage after an absence of nine years, and he thoroughly enjoyed his whirlwind tour of Homer, Fairbanks, and Anchorage,
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