I live in Alaska now! (Girl Takes A Job As A Deckhand And Moves To Alaska)

How we end up where we end up is such a mystery sometimes. Maybe you marry and move. Maybe you marry and stay. Maybe you never marry…but never go? Maybe you never marry…because you always go? Maybe it’s something less … Continue reading

navigate

I had a dream last night. I think that I dream every night…but this is one that I remembered when I woke up. In my dream, I was back at school. I knew that I had classes to go to…somewhere….sometime….and … Continue reading

Jenny!! Come here!! FILM ME!!

We don’t do anything that gets filmed. That doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything that’s worthy of being filmed. We could film most of the things that we do. WE are very interesting people. But….we don’t film stuff. What … Continue reading

You had me at “FREE”.

If I was travelling with my family, in a crowded van that we could spend the night in, I would say to them, when we woke up, “SEE!! LOOK HOW MUCH MONEY WE SAVED!! NOW LET’S GO GET AN EXPENSIVE … Continue reading

You Can Ride a Van in Iceland

Norwegian Death Metal….as muzak in the Icelandic grocery store! How’s that for a little bit different? Strangers in a strange land. I’m PO’d (a little) this morning that someone mowed our field over at the property on Barber Rd….here in … Continue reading

Viking Turf House…

My grandmother on my father’s side was born in a sod house up in the Dakotas….but I don’t think that it was as nice as this one. I have a feeling it was probably pretty utilitarian. I don’t imagine that … Continue reading

Nice Yurt!

“Alternative lifestyle”is such a funny phrase. You live…you take care of business….you take care of your family….you live. What could be alternative about any of that? Here’s a portrait of a young family who moved from England to New Zealand….bought … Continue reading

starter

When you take the old starter off….the one that works most of the time still….and you lay it down next to the new used starter that should work all of the time…mark it…or put it somewhere other than next to … Continue reading