Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 2004 Captain James Cook sailed the waters around Nome during the summer of 1778. He walked the deck of his ship Resolution that August and exchanged signals with Captain Furneaux on the consort ship Discovery as they measured the watery depths of Norton Sound, ever hopeful to find […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 Nobody ever saved the town where I grew up. But I’d heard about Balto even when I went to school in California in the 1950s. The big, black husky (with a right front leg that looked like he’d stepped into a can of white paint) who saved […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 I was amazed when I first saw Hawai’i’s flag. Many of you may assume like I did that it was cut from bold-colored fabric with jungle hues of blue and green or volcanic oranges and reds. It’s not. Hawaii’s colors are red, white, and blue, and their […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
This was my first article published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994. I’m trying to figure things out in Nome. So, before I arrived, I watched a special on television on the Iditarod to help me figure things out. I noticed that everybody at the Nome finish line had on lots of clothes: boots as […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The South Bay Daily Reporter, California, Summer 1994 I don’t know if anybody ever saved Manhattan Beach. I kind of wish somebody could have saved it from the polio that swept through my family in 1954. But, if anybody did save the Beach Cities from a more severe epidemic, there hasn’t been […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The South Bay Daily Reporter, California, Summer 1994. I sure didn’t think much about Native Americans sitting in a classroom in Robinson Elementary in the 1950s, a Dick and Jane book in my lap. There were no Indians left in Manhattan Beach. Nobody with Mongolian cheekbones or long shinny black hair. My […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The South Bay Daily Reporter, California, Summer 1994 I’ve moved up the coast. Way up. To Nome, Alaska. Now Nome is a place you’ll probably have to look up in a geography book. Even if you’re watching the Weather Channel and the guy’s pointing out highs and lows, you might think you […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 When you read this, I’ll be gone. My family will be in Southern California for the winter. We didn’t plan it this way. I had hoped to be here for the Talent Show and Halloween. My friend Kaye and I were thinking of flying in to Council […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 Toddlers experience everything in the first person. Mommy is theirs, Daddy is theirs, toys are all theirs, and other points of view aren’t understood. Toddlers sense the world with their mouths, hands, and bodies and it takes great patience, strength, and physical endurance to meet their needs […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 The final day of the Summer Reading Program at the Kegoayah Kozga Library was this week. The weight of reading 30 books for my oldest son is also lifted. It wasn’t that Sam didn’t think he could read 30 books. Between Beverly Cleary’s “Ramona” series, Tom Swift […]
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