Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 Long before Dr. Fleischman moved into Cicely, Alaska, in the television series “Northern Exposure,” viewers were treated to a sit com episode based in our great state. It was just one episode and it was filmed right after Alaska joined the Union as the 49th state. Lucy, […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 If you’re five years old, you are usually not all that excited about seeing very large wildlife. When you’re driving out of town in the truck and your Mom and Dad are talking about seeing moose and bears and muskoxen, you’re sitting very quietly in your seatbelt […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 The tundra is a carpet of fiery reds, oranges, and yellows right now and, boy, do we Nomeites deserve it! One solid month of rain has kept us a little bit muddy and a whole lot of crabby. So, when the sun finally did come out over […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 Something in my soul gets weary of all this light. In winter’s doldrums, I wish and wish for July days of sun. But when they’re here, I sometimes wish they would just go away.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 I grew up on another beach down the coast. Way down the coast. My parents moved to California’s South Bay from Cleveland, Ohio, after World War II so my dad could get into making movies. All through high school, he’d goaded his friends (including my mother) into […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 It’s finally happened. We’ve run out of green chile. The 25 cans of this precious commodity that we packed into every available extra space in the 20 bags, trunks, and suitcases we flew in with to Nome are used up. So now we’re in trouble.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 My sons have heard the story of the threatened diphtheria epidemic in Nome nearly 70 years ago. I’ve read them the stories of the cylinder packed with the 300,000 units of serum on the train to Nenana, the great hearts of Balto and Togo, and the courage […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 When we first arrived in Nome I picked up the “Historical Walking Tour of Nome, Alaska” brochure down at the Carrie McLain Memorial Museum and oriented my sons to the town with some of the historical locations included. From the Sandspit to the Old Federal Building, we […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 Every woman in America has to make some kind of peace with Barbie. The doll with the flaxen blonde hair, anorexic waist, and pink, wrinkle-free plastic skin has become an icon we live and fight with everyday. You don’t have to watch too many TV shows or […]
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1994 I grew up on a beach in California. I’ve lolled on the pebbles below the cliffs of Dover and watched the Italian Punch and Judy shows on the crowded sands of Salerno. I’ve swum in the Atlantic in Maine and Miami Beach and lived for two years […]
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