Tag Archives: Alaska
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
If you’ve taken an Alaska cruise, chances are you visited the dramatic fjords that are home to many glaciers. I did this in 2009 (I even got a short story out of it). The other day on NPR, I heard about a tsunami in one of these fjords, but I missed the real context. The […]
Setting: A Sense of Place
Have you ever been on a cruise? I’ve only done it once, a small-ship cruise in Alaska’s Inside Passage. The ship had about a hundred tourists and we were able to go into smaller coves and closer to the glaciers than the big Princess ship we saw a few times along the route. The contrast […]
So, Back to Writing
I’m reading a very cool book, In Search of the Canary Tree, by Lauren E. Oakes. It’s early yet, and in it she’s just starting her Ph.D. research project analyzing yellow-cedar forests on an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeast Alaska, near Sitka. What does this have to do with writing? I’m enthralled by […]
Elaine Burnes 