I went ice skating for the first time in years last week, during the annual community Christmas Eve skate at Kevin Bell Arena. The last time I was there for something other than hockey photos, I was celebrating a friend’s birthday. That time, it’d been a while again since I’d put on skates. It didn’t […]
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Out of the Office: Breaking the winter cycle
Most mornings I wake up, take my vitamin D supplement and drive to the office or plop down at the desk in my living room. When I get up from my laptop to refill whatever warm beverage I’m sipping on and look out the window, it’s usually grey outside and there’s usually something falling from […]
Read MoreOut of the Office: Aurora’s performance was worth the wait
If I were to tally up the hours I’ve spent trying to find the aurora borealis, they would likely add up to weeks. Searching for them is like trying to bake cookies with a pantry some invisible entity stocks at random. The recipe calls for just three ingredients: Geomagnetic activity powerful enough for the human […]
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Out of the office and under the trees
The trails that twist through the forest surrounding the Pratt Museum, just off Pioneer Avenue, provide a brief respite from this noise and clamor of Downtown Homer, which has been bustling with tourists, snowbirds, and the steady trickle of fishermen returning from Bristol Bay this week. Tall, gently swaying alders line one portion of the […]
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