As various emails come to the surface I am thinking with care about SA survivors who are waking up to evidence of truths long understood but hidden. May the coming days of emotion bring with them, ultimately, some justice.

Gorgeous, so grateful I could see these.

I heard about this book a few years ago and wished I could read it then! Just started it.

What a beautiful view out my window at the end of a wonderful first weekend of winter.

@brdemuth.bsky.social awhile back you asked Bluesky followers about books which cast non-humans with agency. I imagine you already know of the book Storm by George R Stewart, 1941, but definitely I am thinking of you as I read it. Looking forward to Kachemak this year! Hope you are well.

This Saturday we're joining dozens of zine makers at the Anchorage Zine Fair! Join us at The Nave from 12-6p for a self publishing smorgasbord! #alaskasky

Yep! We can end the clock change with HB 229. The competing bill kicks the can down the road. www.adn.com/opinions/let...

Opinion: Why changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature — and nature itself www.adn.com/opinions/nat...

I loved this article! I am so grateful for the shift in seasons and being able to slow down, sleep. And will celebrate the turning of the year again in spring. Opinion: Why changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature — and nature itself

Opinion: Alaska’s time problem isn’t about the clock www.adn.com/opinions/202...

This was me last week with the same application. 😂

And the responses….😂

Excellent read. Both stories remind me so much of why I choose AK as my home. There’s a richness to the cultural values here that is unobtrusive but infuses so much of our lives, if we choose to allow them to. www.kyuk.org/people/jeron...

Free Store with the Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage! Sunday October 26th 1-4p AKPIRG 2522 Arctic Blvd See you there! @anchoragemutualaid.bsky.social RSVP: airtable.com/appgsVy9Zb62... Give stuff: airtable.com/appgsVy9Zb62... #alaskasky

Last night, my mom, a retired English teacher, and I had a lively discussion about this poem by a famous poet that she’d never heard of:

Live from Nome, it's Strait Science! Tuesday 630pm AKDT on Zoom and in-person at UAF Northwest Campus, the climate context of ex-Halong and summer 2025 review in Bering Strait region and Anjali Shah will give an update on ACCAP's Extreme Events library. #akwx #AlaskaSky @hanners64n.bsky.social

I said I would do this last night but I was too tired so lets do it today. A few caveats - not saying this list is exhaustive, it's just a good place to start. It's also not in chronological order because I'm a chaos gremlin

So, I’ve never heard anyone describe the experience of transporting a cat on a long plane trip. First trip went fine. Yesterday’s trip, not as fine. Let’s just say the layover was messy, and neither of us were a fan of showering together after arriving. But we survived and are still friends.

“The North is calling on you to see us”… www.adn.com/opinions/202...

If you're able, please consider a donation to the Alaska Community Fund to help people in western Alaska impacted by ex-typhoon Halong even as winter is bearing down. All the money donated goes to the region. Quyana. #Alaska #AlaskaSky alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Have I mentioned yet today how much I do not like one drive? Is it possible to devise a more user unfriendly system for creating and storing presentations?

The concept of cognitive dissonance is one of the most profound concepts I learned in college. In more recent years, I think about its relevance to our country as a whole—of cultural dissonance which becomes cultural dissociation. What do we choose, collectively, not to see? Look at that.

Wow!!!! This is awesome!

Gorgeous day for a hike. Decided against going up this mountain with the white stuff, but made it around the loop.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, didn’t like the Homer (Alaska) News coverage of the vigil she organized for Charlie Kirk. On her official letterhead she threatened a boycott. Intimidating a free press because you don’t like what they write? I wonder who she learned that from?

Ah. The symphony orchestra that is our body’s rhythm, waking up with the sun. I feel it when I’m in Sacramento. Coffee helps, but not required in the same way.

It’s warm in Sacramento on this first day in fall.

Wow.

Taking care of family today, and taking a kitty break before evening tasks.

My LTE in this morning’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. (includes a piece of the adjacent political cartoon…)

Happy Triple Square Day!

Cleaning out my closets is so satisfying. A little at a time, though, a little at a time. 😂 “Son, will you take this thing to goodwill?” “Mom, no! I need that thing right this very instant!” Sigh.

Red sky this morning.

In Alaska, pharmacists may independently prescribe and administer vaccines under Alaska Statute AS 08.80.168, so there is no requirement for the standing orders that are used in many other states to authorize pharmacists to prescribe a vaccine

I’ll admit my initial response to this involved the observation that for women, this network of “guys” can be a more complicated calculus. That said, there is a lot about this thread that rings true.

Coffee. Kitty. Rain. Empty nest. Good book. Cozy Friday.

I love that I can sprinkle some (old) turnip seeds in the loose dirt and a few months later—voila. Grateful for the gifts of the soil, sun, water.

A clock moved forward to Daylight Saving Time is never right!

#AlaskaSky hey area bskyers Th Alaska Earth Quake Center is awake and sleeping here. Give them a follow 👇

Yesterday I drove through the beginning of monsoon season in the desert. Lightning, thunder, pouring down rain after I left my youngest at college and headed back to the airport. Weather felt emblematic of the transition. First day empty nesting today, spent on a hillside picking blueberries.

Love the smell of rain in the high desert.

San Francisco Peaks. Volcano complex north of Flagstaff.

I hope I don’t dry up and blow away this week.

My grandmother named one her art pieces about the ninth month of pregnancy, “Entering the Proscenium,” and that describes this liminal week. They leave, too….

It starts…

The serious packing begins. I think we’ve both been procrastinating on this as long as possible. There’s only so many clothes, shoes, books, posters that can be hauled on the first trip. Decisions to be made about mailing vs. baggage.

Spinach cheese bread AND blueberry rhubarb crisp AND Brazilian soda. A good day with my youngest at the fair.