The World According to Grandma

8 May 2009

When you’re a kid, you just don’t think of your Grandma as quirky or amusing, but in the six months that I’ve spent here, I’ve learned that’s just what she is. Sh has sat next to me and imparted her wisdom, but I think it’s her habits and mannerisms that have given me insight into […]

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Freelancing — or Maybe Just “Lancing”

28 April 2009

Just this morning, I got up early to go for a quick run before Grandma got up, and before the day got too hot. I rolled out of bed after only one snooze, and threw on my clothes and shoes. As I was fastening my watch and heading out the door, Grandma got up and […]

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Travels with Grandma

6 February 2009

17 May 1914 Perhaps the entire town showed up for the festivities, a celebration of Norwegian Constitution Day. May 17 also happens to be Grandma’s birthday, though she’s not yet in the photos. She won’t come onto the scene until 1923. The crowd gathered on the banks of the Clearwater River for the photo, taken […]

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Random Exerpt from my Alaska Journal

27 January 2009

June 28, 2008 – Bear Encounter (or, Trooper vs. The Bear) Brown bear. Huge. Walking down the trail toward me, between me and home. I had no retreat without dropping out of sight so I held my ground. Trooper plunged out of the woods between me and the bear, his ears perked in my direction, […]

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Random Exerpt from my Hawaii Journal

27 January 2009

May 16, 2007 – Apartment Building Observations

Today a woman drove up in a minivan. She and Mr. Lee spoke to each other in Chinese, and then he loaded some boxes into her van and she drove away. Yesterday, he unloaded boxes and took them into his apartment. Every day she comes and every day there is an exchange of boxes.

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